Interactive Lecturing

CHAPTER 14Signaling the Takeaways

Providing closure means wrapping up your lecture presentation in ways that help students feel as though it has come to a satisfying finish. Thoughtful endings promote the perception that the lecture is a complete, balanced unit. When abrupt endings can feel brusque and disquieting, more intentional endings can feel fulfilling and encourage students to want to come back to the next class session. A sense of closure can be achieved by the lecturer summing up the key information, correcting misunderstandings, or simply wishing students a gracious farewell. In this chapter, we provide four Tips for what you can do to provide students with closure at the end of a lecture presentation. We summarize the Tips in ...