This article offers ideas for teachers to end lessons or units to check for understanding and to help students make sense of what they learned. Educator Andrew Boryga's suggestions include asking students to write about what they learned as if they were teaching it to a first-grader or to describe their learning in a headline or a six-word summary.
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