WARM UP ACTIVITIES, GAMES AND CLASSROOM

MANAGEMENT.
 INTRODUCCION

This workshop is aimed to empower elementary school teachers in order to develop their teaching
skills.
This National Project, leads us to new challenges, new goals to strengthen the National strategy and in
this way meet the teachers and students’ needs and interests.
 
To overcome the teachers expectations and to ensure that all the teachers feel comfortable and
strengthen their competencies in the teaching practice MINED, and CNU have designed the present
document including warm up, games, and classroom management.
 OBJECTIVES
 To provide a theorical base for the development of the academic and professional skills address
to teach english classes in Elementary School.

 To empower teachers with the most effective classroom management strategies in primary
school.
 
 To practice resources studied, games and dynamic activities for the english classroom.
 
WHY YOU SHOULD ALWAYS START WITH A
WARMER

A warm up should be part of your everyday lesson plan and of course after you greeting is the first
thing you do with your ESL students. It should be an easy exercise that all students can participate in.
Participation of all students is important because this creates a fun focus on English in the classroom
and gets the ESL students ready to listen to their teacher.
 WARM UP ACTIVITY (EXAMPLE)

Teacher introduces him/herself and greets the children by saying hello as she/he waves his/her hand
Invite the children to repeat after the teacher and wave their hands, too
Walk around saying hello to some children and invite them to answer back. Each time you do this, wave
your hand so that the children can relate the word to the movement. Ask them to wave their hands when
they answer.
Repeat this activity with the word hi.
Prompt students to practice with a classmate the greeting (hello/hi).
 
 CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT
Classroom management helps students gain behavioral, social and academic success in a structured
environment that promotes tolerance, appropriate behavior and learning.
Effective classroom management means implementing strategies that create a safe, fair, and rule-based
learning environment for students success.
 Developing a positive classroom atmosphere

According to Jayne Moon (Children Learning English), these conditions are supported by:
 Positive teacher- learner relationships and learning environment
 Effective organization of pupils and resources
 Effective communication between teacher and pupils
 Appropriate support for children’ language learning (scaffolding)
 Interesting and stimulating learning material and resources
 GIVING INSTRUCTIONS
Instructions are a basic part of the teaching process. It is very important to take into account several
factors before giving instructions to the students.
 Simplify language
 Be clear and specific (avoid wordiness and ambiguity)
 Model the task
 Elicit understanding
 Allow enough time for the task.
 
 ORGANIZING YOUNG LEARNERS FOR
LANGUAGE LEARNING
Creating a context: Explain the situation or prepare the student for an upcoming task.
Some other techniques for grouping students:
 Find your partner
 Musical circles
 Get together
 Bring me
 Bingo
 FEEDBACK
Below are a few suggestions on how best to give feedback to young children.
 Give immediate feedback
 Don’t be sarcastic
 Let students revise incorrect answers
 Use verbal and written feedback.
 Be specific in your comments and suggest corrections
 Repeat the students´ answers for correction (reinforcement).
 Give prizes (Candy, encouraging phrases, stars, stickers, etc.)
 Use actions and gestures to show and support meaning (facial expressions, body movements, noises, etc.).
 Be polite
 Use simple language.
 Use appropriate speed and volumen.