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Sample Exit Slips

By Tim Pappageorge
Sample Exit Slips
Here are three areas to draw from, with a range of samples to stir your thinking!  I use exits slips 2-3 times per week at the high school level of teaching.
Examples of Cognitive-Skills Type Exit Slips:

Task Analysis
What are the three most important details in this chapter, task, lab, activity?

Predict
What do you predict will happen when we … mix the compounds together.. find out about Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks…learn about carcinogens…?

Ask!
Write a question about an aspect of the material that confuses you.

Write a question about the material that you think would be a good short answer/essay question on tomorrow’s test.

Write a question about the material/lab/activity in how it relates to your life?

Picture It!
Draw a diagram or picture of the reading/lab/activity.  Make the important aspects or details more prominent.
Examples of Affective-Type
Exit Slips:

Enjoyment
How well did you enjoy the lab, activity, reading, etc.? 

What factors do you think influenced your enjoyment of the task, reading, lab, etc.?

Cooperative
How did you help another student become successful today?  Did you enjoy working with your classmates today?  Why, why not?

Rate your group’s teamwork today.  What types of improvements could you make on teamwork, if any?

Attribution
What types of problems did you find to be most interesting or difficult in this activity?
Examples of Epistemology-Type Exit Slips:

Personal
What types of things does a real historian/scientist/ poet/actor/nutritionist, etc. consider when doing today’s activity? 

Study like a Historian!
It is often said, “Don’t believe everything you read” or “Don’t believe everything you hear.”  In History/English why is it important to be critical of what we read/did/studied today?

Think Scientifically…
Scientists are always creating guesses called hypotheses and then testing cause and effect.  How did we show these ways of thinking in lab/reading today?

1. Given what your class is studying right now, can you think of a door pass prompt for each of the three categories?

2. How often do you imagine it would be ideal to do a door pass (either entrance or exit slip) in your class? 

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