Ms. Frick's Teaching Portfolio

I consider warm-ups an important part of daily classroom management and assessment, so I always put a ton of thought into creating them. They encourage students to establish focus and review important skills related to the lesson or unit at hand. Warm-ups are also an invaluable measure of formative assessment for teachers. When I create my warm-ups, I look to synthesize essential skills with the current topic of study.

 

One of the above warm-ups includes vocabulary review sentences written on the topic of major works that were going to be on the upcoming final exam. I asked the students to choose vocabulary words that they felt were related to either To Kill a Mockingbird or Romeo and Juliet and use those words in a sentence to describe the plot or characters. That particular warm-up allowed the students to review for both the vocabulary section and the writing section of their final exam. It also encouraged them to use creativity. A

 

Another warm-up displayed above contains sentences I wrote on the board which double as a review of our recent reading. The fact that the grammar sentences were relevant to the play helped to jog the students’ memories and even stir up conversations about the material as the warm-up was being completed.