Learning To Recall: Brain Series and Sequence.

Have you ever thought of the human brain as a library with shelves? A library where every shelf has a label describing the category of books to be found on it?

Every attempt to store information in the brain can be likened to a librarian stocking a library with books (information). The librarian has a duty to ensure that various categories of books get to their specific shelve; ensuring mathematics is not mixed up with English and Vice Versa. Consequently, library users can walk into a library and instead of roaming the entire space to find a book with information relevant to them, they visit a shelve to find that information. This is the whole art and science behind storing and retrieving information from the brain.

A learner's ability to recall and the measure of effort invested in remembering can be directly mapped to how the information was stored in the brain. For people who struggle to recall, the Sort Store Retrieve (SSR) Imaginative Approach is recommended. The Sort Store Retrieve imaginative approach is one I formulated and tested 12 years ago while struggling to recall the Complete Works of William Shakespeare in high school after several readings. It requires the learner to think of the brain as a library, him/herself as a librarian, the learning process as sorting books and keeping them on shelves, and recollection as visiting a shelve in a library to find a book.

Implying, learners can imaginatively divide their brains into various subjects of study, thinking of every subject as a shelve label and the topics under that subject as information (books) on that shelve. In retrospect, I imaginatively created a shelve labeled Literature, within which I had sub shelves named Plays, Poems, and Sonnets to help me recall the Complete works of William Shakespeare. During my literature study times, I focused on either a play, poem, or sonnet at a time, making sure no other subject takes my attention. Then I imaginatively store whatever I read on its shelve; helping me recall with much ease like I would walk into a library and find a book on its shelve.

The SSR imaginative approach has proven to be an effective tool for sorting, storing, and retrieving information from the human brain.

Author: EDUCATION 360. Credit: Priscilla Boatemaa Appiah.

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