Active Listening Strategies

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Active listening and note-taking strategies, have helped me so far academically when it comes to listening in class, and taking active notes. Active listening in the classroom helps when you are able to depict certain information a teacher says and process the information that is presented. Taking active notes and going back to read them, play a major role academically, so that I can process the information later when I revise it. The steps that show how to actively listen in class, and how to write down the proper notes are very useful to me as a student. Here I will show what I have learned so far about the concepts, and how I will apply these concepts to my classes this semester. Learning how to actively listen in a class, can make the class a lot easier as a student when it comes to knowing how to process information. I can process good information when I am focused in class and not worrying about other things not pertaining to what I am learning. When you able to depict what the teacher is saying or teaching to the class, it gives a better advantage when it is time to take a quiz/test. Also being able to provide feedback to the teacher so that the teacher can understand where I am coming from, as a student. I have to be able to respond according and appropriately to the teacher so that they can know …show more content…
I take notes by using the Cornell note style method, because that is a method I am most comfortable with. Also it is a neat way to keep my notes, questions, and even a summary at the bottom to summarize the information I learned. Then going back and highlighting important details to the lesson so in a way I can process the information. Plus it helps when I am by myself to study the information that is highlighted to give me more of a depicted definition of what I am

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