Students often feel overwhelmed by the sheer volume of information they’re presented with in a lecture or SI session & this technique can help them identify and organize the information presented.

1. Ask each student to explain what they thought was the most important concept they learned during a particular lecture or SI session. (Basically asking: “If you could take only one thing from the information presented, what would it be?”)
2. Have each student write their takeaway up on the board.
3. Ask each student to offer a different takeaway, so most of the main ideas are covered. 

You can ask students to do this as they come into the session room to save time. As your warm up, you can have students come up to the board and read each other’s takeaways and generate questions they still have.