End of Semester Reflection
The image on the right-hand side shows a page of organized notes from one of the chemistry talks. As shown, the information is organized by topic/ slide. The image on the left-hand side shows a poster of my experiment and how it was executed.
I feel like I have decent note-taking skills because the notes I take are organized, informative, and easy to understand. When faced with important information that I need to record, I don't try to write down all of it verbatim and instead write down only that which is important. This takes up less of my time and allows me to better understand the presentation or lesson. For example, in the Chemistry talks, we had to write notes from each presentation. In each slide of a presentation, there would be several points of information to record and the slide itself would be up for about 1 minute maximum. In this short space of time, I need to write down all of the most important points of the slide and listen to what the presenters have to say about the subject. By deciding which information is important and which is not, I can write more organized and structured notes.
I can be more organized by keeping my chemistry worksheets and assignments separate from other subjects and not mixing up my chemistry binder with my Humanities binder and cleaning it out once in a while. I usually forget to do this, and as a result, I wind up searching for my recent assignments buried in weeks of homework and classwork. On occasion, I have been known to "lose" certain assignments in this veritable sea of papers. Cleaning out my binder once in a while would definitely help me be more organized and therefore more successful. Keeping track of my assignments has always been a relatively simple task for me because I check both Edmodo and PowerSchool every day to check what assignments are due and which ones I have turned in. As a result, I have always turned work in on time and never had a single late assignment. I must continue to keep this up in all my classes in order to succeed academically.