Creating tangible outcomes

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.