PEER+NOTES

The following information about PEER NOTES is provided as a courtesy. This is a school based intervention.

If students are having difficulty keeping up with note taking in class, there are several strategies that may help: 1. Teacher provides a copy of lecture notes 2. Student tape records lecture (less preferrable--arduous task to find specific information quickly. Better for general study) 3. Peer (who is a competent note taker and has legible handwriting) might take notes--copy can be provided to student. (This should not excuse the student from being engaged in the process. They may still write or type key points.)

Regarding using a portable word processor for taking notes: It is the rare student who has the typing speed and can do this well. Note taking is generally NOT a linear process--a word processor makes this task MORE linear than not.

The following link is an example of a form that can be produced at the Print Shop (School Board Office).

(MS Word document) (print out and send to the print shop as an example of what you want--they typically don't keep this in stock. Employees at the print shop generally don't remember this form since they don't produce large quantities.You will need to request this be produced as a 2 page NCR type form.

When used, the top copy is generally provided to the student needing accommodation; bottom copy can be kept by the peer who takes class notes.