To our new mentors, welcome to the club ️ iA you have a fruitful first session. Please do take a look at the powerpoint for initial Class guidelines (see below).

CLASS LOGISTICS:

InshA you will be assigned students for your class. The sessions are one hour every Friday. When you sign in to Zoom, after the announcements and Dua, you will be allocated to your room where you will be conducting the session with your students. This will approximately be a 50 mins session. Towards the end of class, a warning to wrap up will be sent out and the rooms will then be convened back to the main zoom meeting where the closing Dua will be recited, followed by any further announcements.

CLASS CONTENTS:
Things to touch on for the first class:

1. Figuring out where you will start from (ideally the minimum that everyone has memorised so that they all start in the same place
2. Provisionally agreeing how much everyone will memorise every week (half page or full page) (Refer to powerpoint for a guide)
3. Reminding them of the importance of finding their time of day to do their memorisation - when are they the most fresh? Ask them to suggest what they think will work and IA to follow up next week.
4. Motivating them to start this beautiful journey!

REVIEW AT WEEK 2:

2nd class is a good opportunity to find out how your students are doing in terms of keeping up their old memorisation day to day. Use today to gently remind them of the importance of having a good routine to be able to cope with what they have previously memorised.

AS YOUR CLASS PROGRESSES:

As your groups progress and increase the number of Surahs they have memorised, the next question will be - how do I keep it all up? Here we can start teaching our participants how to split and organise their revision so it's not overwhelming but effective.

Remind them that maintenance is easier than starting afresh. Putting in a few mins a day will be much easier in the long run than leaving it until the night before class, and will really make it so smooth to revise.

Hopefully by now they are mostly fixed in their daily routine e.g. they know what time of the day works best for them to memorise and hopefully they are doing it most days of the week.

Now we should start building their weekly routine. This includes both new Surah and revising their old Surahs and they have to learn how to effectively do this within their routines
 

So for example if they have memorised 10 pages of the juz, their daily routine for review could look like this:

Firstly, their new Surah ,Either you can:
- Memorise the whole Surah on day 1 and practice every day. This is a good technique and you can then be relaxed and focus on the older memorisation too

- Memorise half Surah on day 1 and half on day 4. This is less time consuming so may suit some

-Memorise a little every day. I don't recommend this as the end of the Surah may be fuzzy as you haven't had enough time. But it works for some so it's there as an option

Older memorisation: 10 pages memorised.
- most recent 1-2 pages memorised, ideally recite every day or every other day.

This leaves 8-9 pages to review in the week.
- So then they should recite 2 pages per day. If they can do 3 pages per day and thus revise these pages twice over the week this is ideal ( they can build up to this )

In other words, a typical day looks like this:
- Recite new Surah of the week
- Recite most recent 1-2 pages
- Recite 2 older pages

And over the week they have revised all of their memorisation and it took them 20 mins a day

The reason why this is so key is that as their memorisation increases and they have done more pages, they want to retain it. There is no point putting in so much effort for memorising if we don't retain

Build them up slowly. Don't forward this message straight to then. This routine building will be hard at first but the key to good memory is consistency. Little but often. Give them encouragement if they tried to do it every day even if they didn't get there entirely. This will take time to build up but in the long run will be great for their memorisation.

Sister Maleeha.