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I was also intrigued by the cluster activities. How you interpreted it for music was interesting, I can also see myself using a similar strategy for events covered in social studies.

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I like the idea of a longer exit slip. For social studies especially I think it is important to spark deeper thinking about the content!

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Social Studies - Mapping While Notetaking (Emily Merlo)

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Social Studies - Mapping While Notetaking (Emily Merlo)

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I can see myself utilizing mapping strategies when having students take notes in my class. I think with social studies these can really help students form connections between different historical events and people. I would start by having them do a specific one each week, such as a venn diagram one week and another graphic organizer the next. Then, when we have explored many mind mapping strategies I would allow them to organize their notes in any way that makes sense to them. This helps them be creative and make the information make sense to them.

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Being a first year teacher, the exit slip would be very beneficial. It helps seeing where the students are and the KWL would be a good way to see their progress from the start of the lesson to the end.

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In my opinion, exit slips are the best combination of simple, practical, and effective practice for WTL activities. When it comes to social studies, an exit slip can give students the opportunity to show what knowledge they gained from the class that day, and it gives teachers an idea of what concepts need to be revisited the next day. Exit slips can mutually beneficial for students and teachers in this way, and can easily be adjusted to assess whatever the teacher believes to be important. They could also be used for teachers to give students a chance to reflect and ask questions they're left with after instruction.

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I can say when I was in high school I really wished that teachers would have done an exit slip for world languages because there was so much information at once. Sometimes I would be completely lost with the verb conjugations used in Spanish and that would be impossible to understand if I didn't understand the day before.

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Emily I think this is a very thought out assignment and could be used to gauge for understanding throughout lessons as well. Great job!

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Exit slips are something I have done in band previously and I thought they were utilized wonderfully and very beneficial. Within a rehearsal there are many different perceptions on sound based on position within an ensemble. This means there can be situations where someone within the ensemble hears something differently than the director. This could be something that that the student is struggling to hear or something that isn't lining up for them. Many times students have the opportunity to raise their hand and voice these concerns but in situations where time is limited, not every person will get called on/ not every concern will get fixed. Exit tickets are a great way to have students write these ideas before the rehearsal is over. In my experience directors would have us justify what we were listing that needed to be fixed with musical concepts. This way all concerns are collected and not forgotten before the next time a piece is worked on and students gain experience utilizing musical vocabulary and concepts.

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We are in the same class so we remember talking about how effective exit slips are in the classroom. I agree with you how exit slips are beneficial for both students and teachers.

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I really like exit slips and is something that we have discussed in my teaching classes. I remember exit slips being especially effective in my social studies classrooms because there are certain topics that you want to check for students understanding on. It is really easy for students to get lost on a certain topic or lesson and it is really difficult for the teachers to see that some or most of the class is lost. The only way to really check for something like this is by using an exit slip following class that serves as a way to check for students understanding. Exit slips serve multiple purposes for teachers as a way to assess students comprehension of material and a way to see if certain lessons need more time for review. Exit slips also allow for students to reflect on the lesson and gives them a chance to ask any questions that students have.

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Robert, I love this idea! What you are aiming for sounds more like creative writing pieces than a question the students have to accurately answer. Creative writing is so important to aid writing skills, inspiration, and overall confidence!

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Meadow, I love the idea of admit slips for longer novels rather than quizzes! When I was in high school, I know the majority of students (including myself) would rarely do their assigned readings. We didn't have too much class time for discussion about what we read considering we were writing papers and creating presentations over it, so we were given quizzes. Admit slips would likely have encouraged me to stay on top of my readings and have an outlet to discuss it in casual terms.

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I feel like one writing to learn activity that work work well in ELA is drawing and illustrating. There are so many different lessons that this could be incorporated into, whether it be creating a cover page for a book, comics for a graphic novel, turning a passage with great imagery into a visual display, or many other possible examples! I feel as though ELA students already expect to do so much writing, so this would be a way to give them somewhat of a mental break while keeping them engaged in their skills!

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I really like how specific you got into how you would personally do your exit slips. I think its a good idea to make them longer is most circumstances. I also think that they should be used more as a reinforcement tool in most circumstances.

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I think you mentioned something very important regarding exit slips that I failed to do in my response. That is, expanding on the fact that they are great for immediate feedback. Great response!

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Love what you said about deeper thinking. That is always the goal, right?

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Hi! I really like what you said about making exit slips longer. I think a lot of the time, kids can blow off an exit slip and just do the bare minimum so they can get out of class, so making them longer and more elaborate makes it harder to do but also makes sure that they have to think about what they are doing and not just blowing it off. I like this idea and I think it would work really well in the classroom!

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Hi Nina! We talk SO much about the importance of writing in our classes, and especially how important it is to consistently write. Writing constantly, not just when doing essays or work, makes writing more natural and enjoyable. I think using writing breaks is a great way to create more space for student writing. I love the idea of using this in class!

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I really like the idea of making the exit slips longer! This would be a great way for students to get more information written down on paper.

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I do like the idea of exit slips in my classroom, but I would ideally make them a little longer than the average exit slip. I would be more in favor of having students writing a long paragraph on an idea presented in the class, rather than the content directly. For example I would ask students in an exit slip, what would you have felt if you were alive at this time or does this connect to something else we have learned this semester in a different part of history, rather than asking them to tell me why the event we learned today was important, because that is very low level thinking and does not show me their understanding very well.

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Its super important to select a WTL activity that will fit well with your teaching style, and I think you've done just that!

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It's very interesting to use the exit slip activity as a way to reach out to the teacher anonymously. I hadn't thought about that being an outcome of the exit slip activity.

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I really like how you emphasized the importance of getting the student's thoughts and feelings of the students out on paper.

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I really liked you thoughts about using the exit ticket to gauge how well they grasped the topics that were taught that day.

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Fantastic Post! I really enjoyed how you referenced Bloom's Taxonomy.

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I love the idea of using exit slips as a means to gauge student understanding and feelings about the topic.

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I really love this take on the brainstorming activity!

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I like the idea of exit slip for music education, music can be vary overwhelming and I agree this is a good way to measure what kids thoughts of the days lesson. Being able to understand where the kids are at in the learning process is essential. Also being able to figure out what needs work, what kid might still be stuck on, or an opportunity to reach pout to the teacher anonymously.

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I would use the exit slips as a way for students to use or react to the content they have learned in class. With languages, students often are learning many new things at once. Such as new vocabulary and grammar structures in a language they might not be familiar with. It's a good way to get their understanding of these concepts on paper, to see what they grasped during class. I think it would be useful for them to be able to interact with the content in a more informal way. It helps them practice the language in the way that they will be using it.

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Exit slips are really beneficial in the music classroom. There are so many kids you're working with at one time, so it's hard to hear from everyone during class hours. Exit slips are a great way for students to engage with the content. Students could write what a specific piece means to them on their way out of class. Students could let me know which pieces they are struggling to learn and what I can do to help them. Its a tool for students to engage deeper with the music.

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This form of WTL activity can be described and expanded upon in many ways. Short responses are quite easy to integrate into social studies classrooms and they can function as exit tickets and bell ringers. They are also quite easy to apply different levels of toughness or simplicity as it applies to Boom's Taxonomy. Some examples I really enjoy are synthesizing, analysis and evaluations. As exit tickets, these short responses can reenforce key ideas that where expanded upon in class; while bell ringers can begin acclimating  students to the days teachings.

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I think that the exit slip is the best and most practical WTL activity that would work in my classroom. The exit slip is a very good tool for a teacher to use to get a grasp on students' understanding of a certain topic. For example, if talking about how 9/11 shapes the United States and the World today if there was a common answer present that students didn't get correctly then the teacher should go over that topic again in the next class. Also, this is not time-consuming as well so students could be handed the exit slip 5 minutes before they exit the classroom and the teacher could get immediate feedback on their lecture. There were a ton of different WTL activities that would work however I think that the exit slip is the one that I will use the most in my classroom.

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I really like using cluster-style activities to organize different concepts in music. When students listen to a recording of a piece they will be playing, its very easy to zone out and ignore the activity. Having students process their thoughts on a piece as it is being played and sorting those thoughts into categories can help to prepare them to practice the piece by putting words to these opinions. Once rehearsal actually starts, students have already given their input on how to style the piece which will reduce the time spent on that in class.

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I really like this brainstorming activity! It requires students to be creative and think outside of the box-- for example, "x" might not be applicable, but students could use an adjective that starts with it to sort of warp their answers. You could even give a reward for the most letters used.

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I like your idea of using an admit slip to help reinforce what was previously learned. I think that students need to hear things or do things more than once to grasp a brand-new concept. Utilizing this strategy is a great way to go back over things again.

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This is such a great post! Mapping would be an excellent way for the students to visualize those mental connections.

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I like your idea of using the admit slip as a review of the previous class period. Great post!

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I really like the idea of using the the exit slip in combination with the KWL strategy. This would give some awesome insight into the interests of your students from the 'want to know' section.

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I like the idea of using an admit slip. I feel this would be a great way to review what the previous class period was over. This would also encourage students to think about the key components of the lesson because they would have an admit slip, like a little refresher before the next class period started.

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I could see myself being utilizing mapping strategies such as Venn Diagrams for a lot of the lessons I may teach in agriculture. In agriculture there is a lot of connections between different sectors, such as a food web of how we farm corn and then it gets fed to farm animals or goes to our fuel and other places. There are a lot of mental connections that need to be made when thinking about the spread of agriculture or simply just trying to understand what makes two different breeds of cattle different. I could easily use mapping strategies after any time there is a connection that could be made or after a lesson and I want them to simply map out their ideas about the lesson and how that could relate to something.

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I love that you discussed the way that exit slips can help a student to reflect on their learning. This can be used as a tool to move knowledge from short term to long term memory.

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I love the way that you thought to combine the diagnostic aspects of the exit slip with the writing breaks. It is such unique way to use both of those approaches.

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One idea I like is using the exit slip strategy. Especially for being a first-year teacher and whenever you are unsure if your students are paying attention or if you just want to see what they are retaining, engage them with the exit ticket. Give them a few questions that you want them to answer and have them hand it to you as they walk out of the door. You can even use the KWL strategy in the exit ticket scenario to accomplish the same thing. If you've just started a new unit and want to make sure the students are picking up what you're putting down, have them do a KWL on Friday and the next week you could answer some of the questions they had to jog their memory back into the unit.

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I really like the idea of exit slips for my classroom, especially when dealing with social studies topics like government and civics. Exit slips provide a quick and effective way for teachers to assess students' understanding of the material covered in class. This helps teachers to identify areas where students may need additional support or clarification. Secondly, exit slips encourage students to reflect on their learning, which can promote deeper understanding and critical thinking.

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I really liked your idea of using an Admit Slip as a way to determine if the students have actually done the reading!

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This is such a unique way to use the brainstorm activity! I really love the way you decided to do the brainstorm in stages!

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I really like your idea of using the exit slip to see what questions the students have at the end of the lesson!

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I loved your thoughts on the brainstorming activity! It is definitely an excellent activity to use in your own classroom.

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I really enjoyed the "Admit Slip" activity that was presented in the reading and I think it could work really well in an English class, especially when we are reading a book as a class. I would ask students to bring in an admit slip before class, that way I knew that they did the reading and are prepared to discuss it during class and participate in whatever activity we would do in class. I think this is something that can quickly prove that they actually did the reading instead of something that might be a little more stressful, such as a quiz. This way they don't have the pressure to perform, they just have to prove that they did read the book.

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I like the exit slip strategy because it is a good way to figure out what the students picked up in that lesson that day. In agriculture, there are a lot of content that sometimes can be tricky to grasp. The exit ticket gives the student a way to maybe say that they do not understand what the lesson is without saying it allowed. Or it can be a way to see where their mind is going when they listen to the lesson, and what questions they have.

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One idea of a WTL activity falls under the brainstorming category. In this activity, students will write all letters of the alphabet on a piece of paper and try to connect the dots about what they already know about a topic with the corresponding letter. For example, if we were discussing ideal growing conditions for crops, the weather would fall under W, sunlight under S, etc. As the reverse, it could also be done as an "Exit Ticket" at the end of a lesson as to what they may have learned. Some letters are harder than others, but it allows students to think critically and outside of the box to discover what might correspond with the letter.

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Before starting a choral piece, students will raise their hand and present words that they think describe the "feel" of the piece after a quick listen. After this list is generated, students will then generate musical terms-- including dynamic values, articulation, and composition techniques-- that apply to these adjectives.

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Writing breaks: I can see myself using this for just about any lesson. If we are viewing a text in class, I could insert this every few minutes. If I am teaching about how to write a certain genre of essay, I could give them space to write freely. In this way, I could also incorporate the diagnostic feedback that was mentioned as being part of an exit slip, only it could be in the middle of class.

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