International Student Classroom Interaction

I had an international student come to my office hours today. He was having trouble taking notes in class and wanted me to fill in the blanks. Unfortunately the AI's don't take notes in class we understand the topics but we don't have the detailed notes. I had encouraged him to find a note taking buddy but it sounded like he would need help with every class.

He did have notes but they were only what the instructor had on the power point slides which is purely an outline. I talked to the instructor and he called the office of international affairs. They suggested a 500 level English class for the student. His spoken English class was wonderful I didn't detect an accent at all.

I am not sure where the breakdown is here between the lecture and the note taking but I think I am going to reach out to him via e-mail to see if I can understand what is going on. I am not going to use him as a subject but this is an area that hadn't jumped out in my research so far. Plus I want to help him out so he can do well in the class.