They are called "Memory Courses", or "Speed Learning" courses
or several other titles that conger up images of slick speakers who amaze their audience with carnival antics as they ask then recall the names of the first 100 people in the audience.
But there is more to speed learning than associating names with "non-sense" images.
As educators we hope the students have developed listening skills and the ability to focus and organize material in such a manner that it can be digested, recalled, assimilated, and applied at the proper time.
There are very few schools that have the resources to teach such a course.
I know of well funded school systems that build study skills and test taking skills into their curriculum and the results are amazingly higher than other school with similar populations.
In these next few pages we are going to discuss developing "memory Skills" and some of those skills have to be practiced just as one would practice playing a piano.
Other parts of the memory process are techniques that one can immediately use to improve recall.
We plan to use the speed techniques to teach this material.
We will generally use American History and Anatomy in our basis of learning the process but students can apply the same process to most subjects.
Business people can apply the same techniques to most names and data that they need to retain quickly and permanently.
Read the article to the right
Before we get started we are going to preview the steps you need to take in learning material more quickly and remembering it longer.
1- Preview - get a quick overview of the material you are going to need to learn.
2-learn to pick out key words in the material and mentally or actually list them in an outline form.
( P.S. You just improved your listening and reading skills when you started identifying key words)
3- Number every thing !
You will remember that there are 4 characteristics of the paleolithic period and 4 characteristics of the neolithic period - 12 cranial nerves, Pierce was the 14th president etc.
4-As you learn more information about a particular numbered item, you can start a sub list. and number those items. example ( click)
For example if you could name 40 presidents and 3 characteristics of each administration, you would have a good basic knowledge of American History.
5-Plan to make this list a permanent part of your memory just as we can name states and capitols.
6- If you have the skills to use "association" then determine a symbol for each "Key word"
Ifyou do not,have the imagination to associate word with symbols, then you will find many associations and many memory devices presented on this website.
Try to develop association skills.
They are one of the most powerful memory tools you can have.
One of th powers of association is it makes you focus on the word, it makes you concentrate on the word and it makes you use the word.
Once you have successfully found a good association you remember it longer because of the gratification of success.
Using associationhelps people who lack focus skills to direct their mind toward a specific goal.
7- If you have symbols for your key words try to incorporate them into a scene that tells a story.
Ask friends to sit with you and think of the best symbols or associations to help remember material.
Make it a game.
8-Sketch the scene , even if it is in "stick man"form.
9-Label the symbols.
If the symbols need to be in a chronological order, do them from left to right, just as you would write a sentence.
10-Post the list on your peg board or where you can review it daily. (Along with association, repetition is another important learning skill)
Limit your original scene to 10 main "Key words"
Summary:
1-Preview/
2-reduce to manageable list
3-associate
4- convert to a scene that tells a story
5- review often
Click here for an example of a scene that started with a list and grew into a scene that tells a story .
There is more to consider ; coming soon
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