Exit Slips
Among all the strategies I've encountered, I particularly enjoy the use of Exit Slips and would recommend its use in any classroom. Exit Slips are written responses to questions the teacher has posed during the last five minutes of a lesson. The teacher given prompt has multiple purposes. Primarily, the exit slip acts as a gauge of a student's understanding of the lesson topic, but it also acts as a means of evaluating the effectiveness of a lesson. If many student's exit slips illustrate a lack of understanding of the topic, the teacher will suspect something was missing from their lesson. As a result, the information gained from the exit slips drives the next day's lesson, either informing the teacher to review information from the previous lesson or to move on to the next topic. The types of prompt the student can receive is dependent upon what the teacher wants to see. While exit slips can be used as a summary of the day's lesson, they should be used more progressively. One way to accomplish this is to ask students to make conclusions or analyze scenarios based upon the content of the lesson. This way, the student shows both their understanding of the lesson and their ability to extend that information into new areas on their own.
I use exit slips as a ticket out the door activity to assess my effectiveness and student understanding, For example, during a lesson reading the short story "The Veldt," by Ray Bradbury, I asked my students to take the last few minutes of the class to provide three predictions of what will happen by the end of the story using evidence from the text. While some students may be able to hear the prompt and begin responding, others will have difficulty, so it was important to model a response to such a prompt during the lesson. At the beginning of the lesson, I modeled how I would respond to a similar prompt relating to the short story we had just finished reading. I showed my students how I first broke down what the prompt was asking me to do, then proceeded to go back to the story to find information to support the points that I made. For some students, I modeled another response to an exit slip prompt using their responses instead of my own. While exit slips are informal assessments, I found it important to still give clear, measurable prompts so the students knew what was expected of them. Exit Slips are best used informally at the end of lessons, but they provide a good insight into a student's comprehension of the lesson's content. Exit Slips can also be used to gauge what other topics students would like to learn about. Exit Slips can be used in any content are too!
Here are some examples of Exit Slips:
I use exit slips as a ticket out the door activity to assess my effectiveness and student understanding, For example, during a lesson reading the short story "The Veldt," by Ray Bradbury, I asked my students to take the last few minutes of the class to provide three predictions of what will happen by the end of the story using evidence from the text. While some students may be able to hear the prompt and begin responding, others will have difficulty, so it was important to model a response to such a prompt during the lesson. At the beginning of the lesson, I modeled how I would respond to a similar prompt relating to the short story we had just finished reading. I showed my students how I first broke down what the prompt was asking me to do, then proceeded to go back to the story to find information to support the points that I made. For some students, I modeled another response to an exit slip prompt using their responses instead of my own. While exit slips are informal assessments, I found it important to still give clear, measurable prompts so the students knew what was expected of them. Exit Slips are best used informally at the end of lessons, but they provide a good insight into a student's comprehension of the lesson's content. Exit Slips can also be used to gauge what other topics students would like to learn about. Exit Slips can be used in any content are too!
Here are some examples of Exit Slips:
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