Student Reflection

Time for student reflection should be included in every math block, every day.  This is a deliberate and meaningful time for students to reflect on what they’ve learned and experienced during a math task, at activities in learning stations, or in a guided math group.  During reflection time, the teacher is gathering data about students’ self-perception, monitoring students’ progress, facilitating students’ sharing, and helping students understand the math more deeply.  

"During reflection, students make mathematical connections.  This is where most of the learning happens.  Students share strategies, compare strategies, and analyze strategies for effectiveness and efficiency.  Students reflect on what was difficult and what came more easily to them.  They contemplate their new understandings and consider what they are still grappling with" (Lempp, 2017).  This reflection can take many forms; examples may include:

• Math Share

• Journal Prompts (see below)

• Turn and Talk

• Whiteboard Share

• Get Moving

• Exit Tickets (see below)

• Four Corners

• Quick Draw or Doodle

• My Glow, My Grow

• Two Stars and a Wish

• 3-2-1

• Name that Practice

Exit Tickets, or Exit Slips, are a formative assessment tool that can be used to gather information about what students know about the topic that was just taught.  Teachers can use the information from Exit Tickets to guide both whole and small group instruction for the following day.  In addition, Exit Tickets can gather valuable information about how students are feeling about the math.   Exit Tickets do not have to be used on a daily basis and are more effective when used strategically.  

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