Introduction

The knowledge-based economy of this new era demands the individual to allocate more time and resources to learn new things and learn them fast. What has been learnt becomes outdated equally fast as well. There is a need for the student of today to develop self-fulfilling learning skills, which will propel him into this new era. The key to success lies very much on the ability of the individual student to learn the information fast. 

Course Objectives

This program gives the participants an overview of how to improve reading speed and comprehension. If their reading speed is doubled, half of every hour spent reading their journals, memorandum, articles and other reading sources could be more profitably used for important revision and other activities. It is a fact that people who read faster tend to comprehend better. This workshop will also cover the dynamics of how the human brain and mind perceives information and processes it. By understanding this, they are better able to focus their attention to what is being read and comprehend it better.

This program is a self-fulfilling one. The success rate is almost guaranteed with a little practice - the right attitude and confidence.  

Course Outline

• Fundamentals of Speed Reading
- overview of the concept and practices of Speed Reading

• Finding out how you read
- Identifying the reading speed of individual participants.
- Getting participants to peg their reading speed and improving it

• Understanding mind’s perception
- How the brain and the mind perceives and processes information
- The relevance of mind’s perception to speed reading – a practical insight

• Eye Exercise I
- A practice to help improve the peripheral vision of the eye to capture more information

• Discovering your individual learning pattern
- Identifying the individual participant’s own learning pattern – a quiz

• Using "finger/pointer" technique of speed reading
- Practice on a technique of speed reading with materials

• Training the eye to follow words quickly

• Improving vocabulary by guessing words
- A quiz

• Using Skimming and Scanning to glean information
- another technique of speed reading – with practice

• Learning how to remember what you have read
- memory skill on how to remember what we have read

• Increasing reading speed to 1000 words per minute
- more articles to practice

• Using “Peripheral vision” technique to speed read
- Another technique on speed reading

• Learning “adaptive reading” for reports and technical materials

• Learning to idea scan what has been read
- introduce to the participants on the PQRIT system to scan for vital information

• Practicing the techniques taught

Note: As this workshop's objective is to increase your reading speed will excellent comprehension and concentration, you can be rest assured that you will have many articles to read to give you the necessary practise. The materials chosen to help you practise are taken from different sources to give variety and to vary the reading speed of the participants.  

Trainer(s)

Who Should Attend

Directors, Managers, Secretary, Tertiary level students and anyone whose task is to engage in lots of reading.  

Course Details

Date:

1 to 2 December 2009 

Time:

9:00am to 5:00pm 

Venue:

NTU@one-north campus, Executive Centre 

Closing Date:

17 November 2009 

Fee:

Standard: SGD$590   Alumni: SGD$472   Group (3 & Above): SGD$531

Registration fees inclusive of:

• Course materials

• Light refreshments

• Lunch

• Complimentary parking (1 entry/day) - applicable at NTU@one-north campus only.

• Prevailing GST

Online Registration

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Methods of Payment

1. Credit Card (Visa and Mastercard only)

2. Cheque made payable to Nanyang Technological University

3. Invoice to Company (for Company Sponsored Participants)

4. E-invoice (for Government Organizations)

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