This is Jennifer Gonzalez welcoming you to episode 111 of the Cult of Pedagogy Podcast.

In this episode we're going to learn about a station rotation lesson for teaching students

how to take good quality notes.

In episode 104 I reviewed a whole bunch of research on note-taking.

If you haven't listened to the episode yet, you should.

But the gist of it is that quality note-taking does make a difference in learning, but we need

to explicitly teach students how to take notes.

Today's episode will be an excellent follow-up to that one.

Peg Graftwalmer, an instructional coach and reading specialist, created a station rotation

lesson on note-taking for a group of chemistry students.

The lesson worked so well she wanted to share it with us.

You'll find on my website today is a guest post Peg wrote about the lesson along with

photos of the students in action.

In this episode I'm interviewing Peg and Abby Felton, the chemistry teacher she collaborated

with on the lesson.

The lesson they describe is a really effective way to teach note-taking, but what I want

you to keep in mind as you listen is that this model is most definitely not specific to

high school or chemistry or even note-taking for that matter.

Having students opportunities for brief structured practice scaffolded by teacher-created

models is a powerful instructional tool for all kinds of academic skills, so as you're

listening be thinking about the ways you could apply this method to your own classroom.

Before we get started I'd like to thank our sponsor, Microsoft Hacking STEM.

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