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Notes for Success…

Notes for Success…. Deaf Potential 01/04/2009. Paul Clark Michael Peart. Today’s workshop. Note taker’s role Benefits of a professional note taker Skills to develop for effective notetaking Activities City Lit Note taker Training. Notetaker’s Role.

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Notes for Success…

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  1. Notes for Success… Deaf Potential 01/04/2009

  2. Paul Clark Michael Peart

  3. Today’s workshop • Note taker’s role • Benefits of a professional note taker • Skills to develop for effective notetaking • Activities • City Lit Note taker Training

  4. Notetaker’s Role • provides reliable, clear, appropriate notes • adapts notes according to students’ needs • promotes Disability Awareness • works independently and with the team

  5. Benefits of a note taker • Students focus on lip-reading/ sign language • Notes complement BSL interpretation • Notes are powerful aid to learning and assessment success • Mitigates lack of audio rehearsal • Reinforces study skills – demonstrates effective organised information

  6. Benefits of a note taker: • Empowerment • Social benefits • Promotes Deaf awareness

  7. What you can expect • Professionalism • Discretion • Advocacy • Neutrality • Confidentiality • Code of practice

  8. Note takers cannot: • Speak on behalf of a students • Take part in classroom activities • Provide guidance • Provide notes for anyone other than the client • Assume any tutorial responsibilities • Accept ad-hoc request for support • Write indefinitely without a break

  9. Consider • Can you provide access to course materials? • Will you be using handouts? • Does your delivery style facilitate note taking?

  10. Where? • FE colleges • Universities • Adult Education

  11. Qualities & Skills to look for

  12. Technical skills • Listening (Comprehension) active • Memory & recall • handwriting • Layout & presentation: note taking conventions • Language skills: appropriate to reader, appropriate to level of study

  13. Technical skills: Electronic Note taking • fast, accurate typing • IT skills

  14. Personal & Interpersonal skills • Unobtrusive presence • Negotiates & liaises • Boundaries • Critical self reflection • Problem solves & delegates • Time-management

  15. Administrative & organisational • Record keeping: accurate & timely • Codes of Practice • Hierarchies & delegation

  16. Note takers: • Do not write verbatim notes (except amanuensis) Instead, use skills to summarise concepts and modify language.

  17. ‘The domesticated feline settled upon its hind quarters, assuming upon the woven floor covering an attitude of repose.’

  18. ‘The cat sat on the mat.’

  19. amanuensis

  20. Student/ Client Profiles • age? • a wide range of subjects: vocational & academic topics • many levels: Basic Skills to post-grad’ • professional environment • wide range of learning/ communication needs

  21. Differentiate notes made by you, for you versus notes made by you for someone else.

  22. ‘by me, for me’

  23. for a student

  24. for a student

  25. for a student

  26. 4 Processes of Note Making Activity

  27. Language Process

  28. ‘ Musical Instruments can be divided into two basic groups : those which are played with the hands only, and those for which both hands mouth are needed. The former group includes the keyboard, stringed and percussion instruments, and the latter the brass and woodwind’

  29. A note taker must constantly wrestle with these processes and make professional judgments surrounding language.

  30. answer? Musical insts 2 basic grps: • play w/ hands only e.g. keybd strings percuss b) “ “ hands & mouth e.g. brass woodwd

  31. Sentence

  32. Qualifications required • unqualified note taker • qualified: Signature/ OCN • electronic note taker • note taker Tutor • Signing, lipspeaking, lipreading

  33. City Lit Note Takers • All N-T’s hold degree qualifications (or equivalent) • All N-T’s encouraged to acquire note taking qualification

  34. Quality • Quality Standards: internal & external training • Peer support • Observations • Monitor, review and improve practices • Research & develop • Promote wider provision

  35. City Lit Note Taker Training

  36. Introduction To Notetaking GN111 (May)

  37. Note Taking for Disabled Students in Higher Education GN103 (July)

  38. Note Taking for Disabled Students in Higher Education GN101 (Sept)

  39. Electronic Note Taking for Disabled People GE002 (July)

  40. Note taker Tutor Training GT623(May)

  41. Employer Engagement • ‘Bespoke’ courses • Half-Day, One-Day or longer • Contact:J.fitzgerald@citylit.ac.uk

  42. Contact details • Paul.clark@citylit.ac.uk • M.peart@citylit.ac.uk • 020 7492 2727 • dds@citylit.ac.uk

  43. Questions?

  44. Thank You!

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