Assessing Growth Mindset with Exit Tickets

Exit tickets are a valuable assessment tool that can help teachers gauge students’ understanding of various concepts, including social-emotional skills like growth mindset. A growth mindset emphasises that abilities and intelligence can be developed through effort and perseverance. Assessing students’ grasp of this concept is crucial as it plays a significant role in their overall social emotional well-being.

This set of exit tickets has been carefully constructed by a teacher contains the following thoughtful questions:

• What is a growth mindset?
  What does it mean to have a fixed mindset?
• What does it mean to have grit?
• How can you show grit?
• Why is it important to have a growth mindset?
• What did you do today that stretched your brain?
• Describe a mistake you made that helped you grow.
• Describe something you aren’t good at YET.
• What can you do if something is hard for you?
• Plus more!

How to Use Exit Tickets in the Classroom

Exit tickets are a versatile and effective assessment tool. Hand out the exit tickets at the end of a lesson, you may like to choose specific tickets that focus on your lesson objective. You can distribute physical copies or use digital tools if your classroom is equipped with technology. Once students have completed their exit ticket, have a designated location for them to drop off their exit ticket as they leave the classroom. Some teachers like to create a letter box style collection point to make it a bit of fun!

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This resource was created by Lindsey Phillips, a teacher in Michigan and a Teach Starter collaborator.

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