Drama Strategy: Tickets, please!

Start the lesson with Entrance Tickets to help your students focus on what is to come, then establish what they have learnt from the lesson with Exit Tickets.

Entry Tickets are a quiz done at the beginning of the lesson and can be as informal as handing them to students as they enter. It is a retrieval exercise, so it works best when the questions are relevant to the knowledge of the forthcoming lesson. It's also important for the questions to be accessible and not too hard for the students.

When going through the answers, make students self-correct their work by annotating or re-writing their answers. Use this as a diagnostic tool for the rest of the lesson so that you can address gaps in prior knowledge. This might be in teacher talk or further questioning, or it might be that you need to reference that misunderstanding throughout the lesson or reteach something completely.