Closure
Definition:
The critical, consistently prioritized, last 5-7 minute chunk of instruction that provides an opportunity for students to communicate their learning from that day
Best Practice
- All students contribute to show understanding and learning, demonstrating their thinking verbally, physically or in written format.
- Connects to the learning objective(s) and reinforces the relevance of the learning.
- Generates data from each student that could be used for future instruction.
- Completed in each class, despite the lesson’s stopping point.
Examples:
3-2-1, Two-Dollar Summary, Tweet, Elevator Speech, Quick-Write, Collaborative Structure, One-Sentence Summary, Ticket-Out-The Door, “The Important Thing About..”, Mini Quizzes, “Reflective Beach Ball”, TILT (Today, I learned to…)