Even as an entry and mid-level diplomat, I found that speed-reading tactics made my portfolios more manageable. I’ve seen speed-reading be a critical asset within policy circles, particularly at the higher levels, since you have so many sources of intelligence and analysis to review daily. The views in this article belong solely to the author and do not represent those of the U.S. You’ll have gotten the gist of each paragraph and chapter through efficient skimming of the parts of the book that summarize the chapter’s directions (first/last paragraphs, table of contents, etc.) I use the 752-page NSCAI report as an example of speed-reading. Specific sub-skills are: learning to not say the words aloud in your head, reading one or two lines at a time, and even using fewer eye-swipes to get the general sentiment of each sentence/paragraph. People often take weeks-long courses to develop all the related-subskills (I used a 36 chapter-a-day book). Main benefits of speed-reading: reading non-fiction books and articles faster and choosing how long to take on a report/book, rather than an open-ended amount of time. He is a 2014 Most Outstanding Kapampangan Awardee in the field of Arts.Summary: More EAs should learn to speed-read. He is the author of 2 local history books: “Scenes from a Bordertown & Other Views” and “Aro, Katimyas Da! A Memory Album of Titled Kapampangan Beauties 1908-2012”, a National Book Award finalist. Castro is a retired advertising executive and is now a consultant and museum curator of the Center for Kapampangan Studies of Holy Angel University, Angeles City.
She has also written books on phonics and designed an Enriched English Curriculum program-all part of her mission to make reading a life-changing habit, the way it has transformed her life, for the better.Ībout the Author: Alex R. founded in 1969, and has promoted reading advocacies like DEAR (“Drop Everything And Read”) in Batangas. Calderon continues to run the Calderon Reading Workshop, Inc. Calderon became the Dean of Arellano University’s Graduate School of Education in 2012.Īlso Read: 8 Filipinos Who Make You Proud To Be Pinoy She returned to her home province, Batangas, to become the VP for Academic Affairs at the First Asia Institute of Technology and Humanities in Tanauan. in Education (1984), at the University of the Philippines-Diliman. When the hoopla died down, Calderon concentrated on her schooling, earning a Political Science degree (1974), and M.A. Maria Teresa Calderon as Dean of Graduate School of Education, Arellano University 19, 1971) and in academic journals the world over.ĭr. Calderon’s records earned her a feature in the Encyclopedia Britannica (Vol. In comparison, the second highest recorded speed in reading is 54,825 words per minute with 90-percent comprehension. To everyone’s awe, Calderon reset the record books with her reading speed of 80,000 words per minute with 100 percent comprehension. Reading tests were administered by the University of Minnesota, the University of Illinois, the Purdue University and Northwestern University. In tests after tests, Calderon proved her amazing aptitude. Salinger’s “The Catcher in the Rye” in 40–and she understood every word and paragraph she read.Īlso Read: 8 Famous Filipino Events You Didn’t Know Influenced The World In the case of Calderon, her general knowledge was simply extensive, that in one test, she managed to still score 37,000 wpm when she was given a book to read-on golf! She breezed through Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter” in 20 minutes, Henry James’ ”The Turn of the Screw” in 25 minutes, and J.D. The more familiar the topic, the faster the reader can skim. This means that when Calderon reads, she would gestalt by filling in the gaps from her stock knowledge. But Maria would take a different route in making her mark in history by becoming a speed-reading whiz.Īlso Read: 13 Incredibly Amazing Pinoy Athletes Who (Almost) Conquered The WorldĬalderon mastered a technique called “gestalting”-a German form of psychology that says the response of an organism is a complete and un-analyzable whole rather than the sum of responses to specific elements. Norma Calderon-Panahon, is a distinguished psychiatrist. that managed multi-billion-dollar funds in New York for years. Her eldest sister is the “Wonder Woman of Wall Street,” Lilia Calderon-Clemente, head of Clemente Capital, Inc. Florence Schale.Ĭalderon came from a family of achievers, the fifth child of Jose Calderon (an Ilocano from Candon, and a member of the 1971 Constitutional Convention) and Betty Fabros (from Batangas, the first and only woman member of the Manila Stock Exchange from 1967-83).
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