I read multiple times.
- I first skim through in fast motion
- I then read slowly to understand
- I then read again to recall
- I then mentally recall without reading from the book.
- I then sleep (important😅)
- I then wake up and scribble all i remember from my brain into a sheet.
- I then compare my mental notes which I scribbled with the actual notes to see what I didn’t remember.
- I then reread those parts.
Essentially sha, I don’t make notes while reading. Slows me down too much. If there’d be any writing, it’s me scribbling stuff in paper, not as I read, but from what I recall hours after reading to be sure it stuck.
That time for making notes, I’d have read the syllabus like 3-4 times and mastered it. 🙏🏾
I never advise it sha but that’s what I do.
I remember starting notes in law school out of peer pressure😭. Omo, by week 4, I couldn’t keep up. I was behind on the note writing. The concepts were only in the written notes not in my memory. I was rewriting textbooks cause everything seemed important😭. It just wasn’t working for me.
Had to stop and use my method. Read straight from textbooks, from notes, from materials, from every source. Read and reread and reread.
Morning of the exam, I still carried textbook cause I didn’t have note 😂😂. But at this point, I could go through it in 10 mins cause I had mastered it enough.
IsiXhosa
January – EyoMqungu
February – EyoMdumba
March – EyoKwindla
April – uTshaz'iimpuzi
May – EkaCanzibe
June – EyeSilimela
July – EyeKhala
August – EyeThupha
September – EyoMsintsi
October – EyeDwarha
November – EyeNkanga
December – EyoMnga
To the Life Sciences teachers out there? What are your teaching strategies to capture your learners imagination? Differentiating your teaching methods to cater for all learners with different learning styles?