Suggestion 48. Use the blackboard for effective summarization

IF YOU WANT TO:

• Summarize major points

• Give lectures that are easy to outline

Using the blackboards for effective summarization.

Several excellent teachers stressed the need to plan their blackboard work carefully so that the most important concepts are still visible at the end of the hour and can be used in making a summary.

"I consciously attempt to write clearly and legibly and to be sure that my boardwork is organized and visible to everyone," one engineering professor says. "At the end of the class, I use this boardwork to go back over important theorems or equations, underlining and boxing in colored chalk important concepts and steps."

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