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Show Thursday, December 10, 1981 - Page 16 Local Children Demonstrate Memory Skills For PM Magazine By SIIAKON MOKKEV A nine-yea- r old boy can recite a list of 51 objects he's just seen for a few minutes without missing a one. A five-yea-r old girl can rattle off I he names of all 50 slates with a trium-phant grin on her face all Ihe while. What are they doing? They're employing memorization skills and lechniques Debra Hadfield has laught them, and they are performing for KUTV's j'M Magazine whose Editors are in American iFork to capture their Success on film. ;.' Debra Hadfield lias laughl adults memory skills for several years wilh very successful results. She has guest laught workshops at Weber State College, B r i g h a m Young University and Utah Technical College helping sludenls im-prove study and memory skills. Her articles have appeared in LDS Church magazines and Mountainwest. She is currently a nominee for Outstanding Young ' Woman of America, and ihe mother of five children. She is married lo Eugene Hadfield and lives in Pleasant Grove. ; Hadfield has many j n n o v a 1 i v e and progressive ideas about learning and teaching -- just some of which are taught in Ihe Memory Skills classes. This year she decided (o try a "guinea pig" 'class of children, j "I believe I can leach children the same 'lechniques I teach adults and with equal success," said Hadfield vhen she introduced her ;ideas. "I really believe .in these systems." She offered her class lo seven lo eleven-year-plds-a discounl hoping to attract a good number of interested parents and children. She ended up wilh lifteen students from Ihe tri-cit- y area, some )as young as five, in-cluding Amber and Tara Allred, Nathan and Varden Hadfield, Annette Holbrook and Kristine Holbrook, Bobby and Josh James, Heather Kirkpalrick, Kristy and Dana Morrey, Ryan Nielson, Macy Sanderson, Marlise Taggarl and Suzanne Yates. All fifteen were "on TV" November 11 to show PM Magazine what they've accomplished and how Hadfield has taught them to doit. The American Fork Library provided the setting and cameras ran for nearly four hours (aping the class, memorizing, reciting, earning and enjoying (he entire process. I Each child took a turn showing the skills Hadfield has taught hem in just nine weeks of hourly classes. They all know how lo associate, how lo use homophones lo help them recall a or a slale capital. They each know lists of "peg words" lhal enable hem lo recite I i s I s they've memorized; ihe forty presidents, lie chores I hey arc responsible for each week, a lisl of groceries. Hadfield says Ihis group is really something, "I don'l know that I'll ever have such a group as Ihis again. The parental support is really great, and Ihe children so enthused,' such good learners." Hadfield plans to conl inue leaching children memory skills. She says its never been done before and no one else is at tempt tng it. PM Magazine editors noticed this. They plan lo air the segment on Hadfield and her class early in January, 1982. Director Patty Shuman said she couldn't believe whal Ihe children were able lo do and the ease with which they learned from Mrs. Hadfield. One child memorized new names for each classmate and recited the new names plus the "old names" for Ihe cameras while Hadfield was out of the room, all in about ten minutes. All of Ihe children expressed enthusiasm for the classes. Each paid twenty dollars for the ten-wee- k course and came Tuesday evenings for fifty minute classes. Now Mrs. Hadfield is readying to start another series of classes in January. Beginning January 11, the Children's Memory Workshop will again be offered, running the time span ten weeks, one hour weekly Tuesdays. Cost is twenty-fiv- e dollars per child if registered before Christmas with a discounl of ten dollars when more than one child is registered from Ihe same family. "More Power Wilh Your Memory" - a memory skills for leens and adulls is also of-fered. This class is two hours a week and runs for five weeks. Also a study skills course is available that picks up as the five week leen and adult memory skills class ends. II is designed for junior, senior high school students and will help students learn to develop self-estee-motivation, coping skills. Mrs. Hadfield can be reached at 785-617- 4 for regist ral ions or for furl her informal ion on any of the classes. " i J ' p : ; i r ' ; f ,i-i;l- ! i . r' 7 7 , v 7? !!f. 3 1 ' '' . 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"Gather your families and friends and celebrate an 'Olde Fashioned Christmas' with these special young men and young women. Share the true spirit of Christmas on these evenings from 7 to 8 p.m. with those so willing to share with you," they invite. Free refreshments will be provided for carolers. To schedule your visit or for further in-formation, contact the training school, 756-602- extension 315. |