Have you had any training with visual learning?  I found that these
techniques helped a lot with corrections learners who had fried their
brain cells on meth, etc.  Also techniques such as webbing and linear
pictorial representation help in sequencing essays.  

Va

 

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From: focusonbasics-bounces at nifl.gov
[mailto:focusonbasics-bounces at nifl.gov] On Behalf Of Tim Lanari
Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2007 6:12 PM
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Subject: [FocusOnBasics 644] Ideas to increase retention?

 


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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