Teaching Skills: alert the audience

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Tips for Programs: Practical examples and resources

4. Building a Powerful Closing

Alerting Your Audience

Signal your audience that you are nearing your conclusion (“I’ll give two more examples before I wrap up.”) and then announce that you are concluding. Try one of these phrases:

  • Now let’s review the main points we’ve covered. . .
  • To sum up these factors. . .
  • Our primary purpose today was to. . .
  • In conclusion. . .
  • In closing. . .

Adapted with permission from Soil and Water Conservation District Outreach: A Handbook for Program Development, Implementation and Evaluatio. Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Soil and Water Conservation, 2003.