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Exit tickets: reflect on today’s learning
Summarise learning, identify an open question and reflect on confidence at the end of a lesson.
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Combined Science teacher
Dang Thi Thao
I look for ways to make instructions explicit, check understanding without putting anyone on the spot and connect a new idea to examples the group can recognise.
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I teach Combined Science across secondary. Pupils can arrive during the year with different previous experiences of the subject, so I want the lesson to make its key ideas and vocabulary easy to identify. A clear opening gives everyone a place to begin while helping me see what needs explanation.
When pupils are new to a class or school, familiar terms and diagrams may not be familiar to them. I look for ways to make instructions explicit, check understanding without putting anyone on the spot and connect a new idea to examples the group can recognise.
I value resources that support a shared goal with enough flexibility for different starting points. A worked example, labelled diagram or short recap can help pupils join in, while follow-up questions show what they have understood. The class can work towards the same scientific idea without assuming every pupil took the same route to get there.
How I approach a lesson
Make key ideas and vocabulary explicit.
Use examples and diagrams to support different starting points.
Check understanding with low-pressure follow-up questions.
Templates I'd use with my class
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Science
Science vocabulary: particles and diffusion
Pupils should use counts and volumes to identify the higher concentration and explain net movement from left to right. They should distinguish overall net movement from individual random motion and identify permeability information needed for a different membrane.
Science
Dissolving sugar: scientific investigation and report
Pupils should specify a repeatable fair test, record all raw readings with units, calculate means and represent their actual data. Their conclusion should cite two results and their evaluation should connect two specific limitations with practical improvements.
Science
Photosynthesis lab
Make the model’s inputs and rule explicit, then use one changed setting to check a pupil’s scientific explanation.