Exit Ticket Maker

The eight formats, and when each earns its slip

• 3-2-1 — The general-purpose one. Works in any subject, on any day.
• Learning target check — Did today's objective land? Gives you tomorrow's grouping.
• Muddiest point — The single most useful question you can ask at the end of a hard lesson.
• Show your work — One problem, worked. The maths version of an exit ticket.
• Traffic light self-check — Ten seconds to fill in, sorts the class into three piles at the door.
• Vocabulary check — Word, meaning, and used in a sentence — the three-part test of knowing a word.
• Bell-ringer / do-now — The start of the lesson rather than the end. Same slip, other end of the hour.
• Reading response — Text evidence, in the smallest form that still requires it.

What to do with thirty of them

Sort into three piles at the door — got it, nearly, not yet — and do not write on any of them. The piles are tomorrow’s grouping and that is the entire return on the exercise. An exit ticket that gets marked and handed back is a quiz, costs an evening, and arrives too late to change what you teach next.

Why they are not graded

The moment a slip counts, a student stops telling you what they do not understand. The muddiest-point ticket in particular only works if answering it honestly is free. Keep the gradebook out of it and you get real information for three minutes of class time.

A term of them, already printed

The Exit Ticket & Bell-Ringer Pack is all eight formats at every layout, ready to photocopy from a binder for the rest of the year. This maker stays free. More at teacher resources.