Recode

I was reading this book 'How to Teach so Students Remember' and would like to share one of the strategies called 'recoding'. Recoding is the ability to take information from different sources and generate it in your own language. According to the author, self-generated material is better recalled. That is why I've already told all of you during my first lesson that one of the important way to score is dependent on your memory power. You must find ways to increase your memory capacity and one method is to use note-making tools to help you. Use your own language to make notes for your own understanding. So.. don't procrastinate! Start making your own notes in your own language. For the 4N pupils, I've introduced you to flow maps to help understand concepts that involve cause and effect. Remember we drew the different development indicators? For the 3E pupils, I've introduced you tables to categorise the factors affecting natural vegetation?

I'll like to end this post with what S.I. Hayakawa said in his book, Language in Thought and Action, "You don't know anything clearly unless you can state it in writing".