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> From: focusonbasics-bounces at nifl.gov [mailto:focusonbasics-

> bounces at nifl.gov] On Behalf Of kathleen morgan

> Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 3:26 PM

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> retention?

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> Searching online for 'graphic organizers' will give you plenty of

> printable examples.

> Scholastic also publishes many ESL friendly resources that are not covered

> in bunnies.

>

> Kathleen

> Telluride CO

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> --- On Mon 02/26, Virginia Tardaewether < tarv at chemeketa.edu > wrote:

> From: Virginia Tardaewether [mailto: tarv at chemeketa.edu]

> To: focusonbasics at nifl.gov

> Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 12:46:32 -0800

> Subject: [FocusOnBasics 657] Re: Ideas to increase retention?

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> style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>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.

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> 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

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> 12.0pt'>What strategies, techiques, enrichments, or materials can we apply

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>  style:italic'>PHCSJean.34425698 at bloglines.com

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> 12.0pt'>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". 

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> know they learned something. When they share their <st1:City

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> 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 <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place

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> and see visually how you are 

> doing. And trust me, those test scores will being going up too. 

> > Va 

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