Using The Connect 4Four Exit Slip to Teach Common Core Social Studies

The Connect 4Four Exit Slip

Connect 4Four is a good exit strategy social science teachers can use to determine what their students have learned.  Dr. Jennifer King of Chicago has developed the Connect 4Four strategy for students to explain what they have learned after each lesson.

In Connect 4Four, the teacher asks their students to respond four questions:

1. One: Write down the things “I” have learned.
2. Two: Discuss those things from the lesson “I” found interesting.
3. Three: Write down the things “I” like to learn more about.
4. Four: Make connections between what “I” learned today; and what “I” already knew; and the SWBAT (Student Will Be Able To) that “I” will be able to as a result of what I learned.

Student responses to these statements provide teachers and their students’ specific information on the effectiveness of the lesson. It can also serve as a “motivation “tool because it allows the student to decide what s/he wants to learn in the future in relation to this learning experience.