teaching-journal

Use exit tickets in your lessons - Everything you need to know

A good ticket:

• is short;
• are not tests and shouldn’t be graded;
• Provides feedback to the teacher.

There are three kinds of questions in a exit ticket:

• Questions that prompt student learning;
• Questions that emphasis the process of learning;
• Questions to evaluate the effectiveness of instruction.

Example from the software the video author makes:

Reasons to use exit slips/tickets:

• To verify that students can solve a problem;
• To emphasis the essential part of a lesson;
• For gathering questions that students have about the topic;
• To see if students have a sufficient level of understanding to apply the content in a new way.

Starter exit ticket prompts:

1. Write down three things you learned today.
2. If you had to explain today’s lesson to a friend, what would you tell him/her/them?
3. What question do you have about what we learned today?