"No more copying meaningless statements from the text!" The Analytical Notes process by Dr. Robert Pauker is a simple technique that helps students organize and analyze ideas resulting in increased student comprehension and accelerated learning. How it Works The Analytical Notes process gives students a step-by-step approach that enables them to focus on important ideas and support these ideas with key information. The Analytical Notes format and graphic organizer provide students a visual way to analyze the content. Students learn to determine which details and ideas are significant. As a result, students use critical thinking skills to heighten their comprehension. Why it Works The Analytical Notes process teaches students to focus on the information that merits analysis, as opposed to merely copying details from a text or a presentation. Students become proficient at asking key thinking questions about the content. This part of the process increases both short and long-term understanding. Starting Point for Writing and Speaking The Analytical Note process is an excellent tool to help students organize their thoughts before they begin writing or preparing a speech. Dr. Pauker includes examples of how students can create paragraphs and speeches right from content in their Analytical Notes. Works for All Curriculum Areas Dr. Pauker's strategy can be integrated into all curricular areas including math, science, guidance, English, social studies and even physical education. Dr. Pauker presents examples in each area with actual teacher dialogue.
About the Author: For over thirty years, Robert A. Pauker has been an educational consultant to scores of public school districts. Dr. Pauker is the founder of the Structured Writing and Thinking Program. He has designed multiple critical thinking strategies that have been implemented in hundreds of classrooms across all academic disciplines. Each of these thinking strategies is designed to enhance literacy and content skills, as well as student comprehension, organization, and comprehension. Implementation of Dr. Pauker's Structured Writing and Thinking strategies accelerates learning and student performance. Dr. Pauker is the co-founder of Logos Instructional Solutions that presents scores of lessons to maximize learning in multiple content areas. He works with administrators and teachers to match specific critical thinking and literacy strategies to the individual needs in the classroom that increase student learning proficiency. Dr. Pauker's implementation model is to train classroom teachers and administrators in one or more specific thinking strategies. Then, he works directly with each teacher in the classroom to demonstrate the practical application to literacy and to the content curriculum. Dr. K. Michael Hibbard, nationally known educator and current Assistant Superintendent of the North Salem, New York schools states: "Dr. Robert Pauker's strategies for reading and writing work with all students K-12! Dr. Pauker's strategies are exactly what we need to implement high-level instructional standards for ELA/literacy. Performance of students from the lowest performer to the highest improves. Teachers describe Dr. Pauker's strategies as some of the very best they have learned!" Dr. Pauker is the author of several articles and books, including Teaching Thinking and Reasoning Skills: Problems and Solutions published by The American Association of School Administrators.