Actually tracking Eureka moments is a great graphing exercise and can
lead to management by statistics.  If your students' graphs are going
up, then what you are doing instructionally is working; if not the
instruction needs to be changed.

I like the bell ringer idea too!

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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

<snip>  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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