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Warm-up Activities and Ways to Implement them in the Classroom
Ninel N. Desyatnichenko
As we all know, a "warm-up" often helps create a conducive atmosphere for learning and gets students ready for active and fruitful learning. These activities are especially helpful in preparing students to work in pairs and groups. In this paper, I'll define warm-up activities as an integral part of lessons that serve to make critical thinking strategies and the process of teaching more effective.
If strategies supporting critical thinking and active learning are to be realized within the framework of a traditional school, the warm-up activities have to be limited to a 3 to 5 minute period. But those 3-5 minutes may greatly benefit the learning process. I believe that we should develop a deep appreciation of the warm-up, and extend its functional limits.
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Warm-up Activities and Ways to Implement them in the Classroom