Studying Your Notes: How to Write a Summary and Reflection

Tommy Messinger | @mistermessinger

December 22, 2020

• Mister Messinger

Are you trying to figure out how to study your notes? In this video, I will teach you two highly underrated study techniques. I show you the process, give examples and tell you the common mistakes to avoid. These can be used for any note taking method and in the video I will show you both Cornell and outline notes.

When you write a summary, you want to answer the question: What is important? When you write a reflection, you want to answer the question: How can I use this information? After watching this video, you will be able to write a summary and reflection for any subject when studying your notes. Feel free to use the following templates and examples to help you take the best notes.

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• 0:00 Summary and Reflection Introduction
• 0:20 Purpose of Summary and Reflection
• 1:01 Summary and Reflection Questions
• 1:25 Summary and Reflection Example
• 3:38 Review Process

Tommy Messinger
For the past seven years, I have taught at a Charter school in San Diego that serves a 60% refugee and immigrant population. I have had the opportunity to teach everything from Honors Social Science subjects, Android app development, remedial literacy and AVID to running an after school robotics and basketball program, operate as testing coordinator, and serve on our school’s leadership team. I recently finished my M.S.E in Curriculum & Instruction with an emphasis in Reading Education at Kansas University.