Learning results from what the student does and thinks and only from what the student does and thinks. The teacher can advance learning only by influencing what the student does to learn.
What it is What it might look like in the classroom Why it's important • Physical products that record, prompt, and reinforce student engagement with key course material. • Serve as useful study aids during and after class, increasing student comprehension and retention of course content.
Creating Tangible Outcomes
• Ideally, students take the tangible outcome with them after class to serve as a durable artifact of what happened in discussion.
- 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.)
• 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.
View/download a guide to creating tangible outcomes in your discussion section.
This is one of nine TA skills. View/download a chart of all nine skills.