Raising Your Bar Instructional Strategy

For the Instructional Strategies class, I recently participated in we had to create a mash-up of instructional strategies to use in our classrooms. One thing I have struggled with is teaching how to take notes. Particularly when watching videos and learning how to engage in them. I started to think back to college and how one of my Education professors mentioned making questions out of headings and finding the answers to these questions. I thought about doing this and utilizing google keep as I did it. Raising Your Bar was developed. My goal is to have students learn how to ask good questions and keep good notes as well. One reviewer already mentioned the goal is to get students to ask questions they don't know the answers for, and to be okay with that unease that occurs.

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