Some teachers, with experience, are artful enough to be able to walk into a classroom with as little as some notes on scraps of paper or some marginal notes in the textbook, and still conduct an...

Some teachers, with experience, are artful enough to be able to walk into a classroom with as little as some notes on scraps of paper or some marginal notes in the textbook, and still conduct an excellent, well-paced, challenging lesson. What do you think your inclination would be in writing up classroom lesson notes? What are the advantages (and disadvantages) of a “minimalist” tendency as opposed to taking several pages of notes into the classroom with you?