A good way to learn a concept is to try to teach it to another person. So pick something we covered so far and then draft a short exercise designed to help a friend, a family member, or even a complete stranger understand it.

The exercise need not be elaborate. A simple multiple choice or true/false question modeled on the ones in our “Low-Stakes Practice” sections will do.

Of course, if you’ll soon be leading your own class or training session and want to use this opportunity to test out a more involved exercise, go right ahead. You’ll have a chance to share your initial iteration in the next discussion prompt. Perhaps someone else taking the course will give you helpful feedback on it.

But even if nobody does, the process of generating your own question, prompt, or full-fledged assignment could lead to some productive places. At a minimum, it should aid your own comprehension of the material, as a lot of research on “the protégé effect” has shown.

For an overview of that research:

Read

Short Essay : The Protégé Effect ( Time Magazine , 2011)

Longer Academic Article : Teaching Agents and the Protégé Effect ( Journal of Science Education and Technology , 2009)

Watch

The Protégé Effect (Edutopia, 2018)

Protégé Effect: Does Literature Support It? (Demystifying Medicine, 2014)

Here are some concepts to choose from, but certainly feel free to pick something different.

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