Creating Tangible Outcomes • Physical products that record, prompt, and reinforce student engagement with key course material.
• Ideally, students take the tangible outcome with them after class to serve as a durable artifact of what happened in discussion. | - Creating opportunities for the session to yield some physical product that students can take home (e.g., notes, chart, concept map, essay outline).
- The process of developing a tangible outcome to the session can be supported by:
- Posting an agenda to signal what students will be accomplishing that day.
- Using the board as discussion occurs to record, organize, summarize, and relate information/ideas. (This translates aural to visual and encourages students to take their own notes.)
| • - Serve as useful study aids during and after class, increasing student comprehension and retention of course content.
• - Increases perceived value of the session by providing a reminder of the experience.
• - Students are better able to articulate what skills or knowledge they learned/practiced, and how these relate to success in the class.
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