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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:

• 
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• 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.