As instructors in prison and other correctional settings, our students frequently experience the consequences of drug use and abuse, suffer possible brain injuries due to violence in their lives, deal with mental health issues, and exemplify characteristics of undocumented special learning needs.  As instructors, we continually covet new information to instruct these students who have so many complications to learning. 
   
  What strategies, techiques, enrichments, or materials can we apply to increase retention?
   
   
  
PHCSJean.34425698 at bloglines.com wrote:
  I love that! I call those light bulb moments, but what a great idea to track
them. Sometimes in training course I teach, I bring bells like you'd find
on an old hotel desk, and put one at each table and encourage students to
acknowledge their discoveries as "a real bell ringer".

Do you let your
students know about the Eureka factor and encourage them to express those
ideas?

Thanks for sharing it.
Jean

Personally, I like the Eureka
Tool. Have you experienced it? It's been around for centuries....when students
say Eureka! I know they learned something. When they share their Eureka with
another, they both learned. When they both share it with me and applications
to their lives-I learn something. The Eureka Coefficient for today was 6.
As an instructor you can graph your Eureka's and see visually how you are
doing. And trust me, those test scores will being going up too.

> Va


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