Previews, Reviews, and Summaries

students working on their content reviews
Do these learning devices deserve a bigger space in our instructional tool boxes? They’re sort of taken-for-granted aspects of teaching and learning. We know where they belong: at the end or beginning of a session, a topic, a unit/module, a chapter, a set of related readings, before and after an exam, at the beginning or end of the course. And we know who usually creates them—the teacher.

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