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About DynaNotes Student Course Notes
(student-friendly summaries of all the eligible TEKS for elementary, middle, and high school courses)
The presence of DynaNotes student course notes in your classroom may not change any of your class
activities, assuming current assignments address the TEKS and reach the appropriate rigor. Rather,
the notes impact each student’s EXPERIENCE as he or she works to complete those activities.
• Sense of progress: As scaffolding, the notes can enable or speed understanding, retention, recall,
and work completion. As a course overview, the notes help the student and teacher measure
progress and communicate to each other and to the parents or guardian.
• Student effort: Students exhibit a willingness to try, empowered by their course notes to
seek help independently when they are "stuck" instead of requiring a verbal reminder from the
teacher. Plus, the feeling of progress itself yields a redoubling of effort, guiding students toward
the UPWARD SPIRAL that leads to mastery.
• More 1:1 face time: As many students help themselves, teachers are freed to spend additional
1:1 face time with those who need more than a simple reminder or application example.
For straightforward implementation steps, see the "Quick Start Guide"
in your order. It’s also available online, along with other helpful
guidance and activities, in the DynaNotes Teacher’s Workroom.
When students use the notes AS needed, key content is committed
to memory. "Maximize student access to the notes," is good advice,
and students should naturally progress to where they no longer reference
DynaNotes sections for TEKS they have mastered. The teacher may
adjust or limit a certain student’s access to the notes as
he/she believes most benefits that student.
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