Activities to wrap up the lesson

Exit Tickets

Exit tickets out the door are short writing tasks that teacher asks students to complete before the end of a class. The tickets provide teachers with a quick feedback on students' learning progreess.  By collecting the tickets from students, you can:

• get feedback from students (about their understanding of a certain topic/ feeling about the class/ muddiest point etc)
• ask students to do some synthesis of the class' content
• require students to apply what they have learnt

The exist tickets should not be treated as formal assessment. Rather, they should be regarded as one of the ways to inform teacher about students' learning and keep students engaged during the class. You can ask students to use 1-2 mins the complete the task, some possible questions are:

• Name one important thing you learned in class today
• Write one question still in your mind after today's lesson
• Do you have any suggestions for how today’s class could have been improved?
• Which of the pre-class readings you did for class today was most helpful in preparing you for the lessons? Why?
• We had a learning activity in class today.  Was this a useful learning activity for you? Why or why not?

Quiz

You can give students a simple quiz before the class ends to test their understanding of the content you covered in class. Even a simple quize like True or False can provide you some ideas of how well students understood the content, and you may adjust the content in next class with reference to students' performance in the quiz.