A new view about Warm ups and Ice- breakers

     Even though Warm ups and Time Fillers are so effective to teach a class, I think they are not so effective with adolescents at schools. Since I am teaching in eight grade with 35 adolescents who are so active, I consider that bringing a warm up which includes lots of movements to a class is not a good idea because they make the teacher lose the control of the class. First of all, since my students are still adapted to the old traditionally system education, they are not used to have an active role in their own learning, so most of the time my students do not want to participate in class which makes my job little difficult; that’s why I decided to use Warm ups and Ice-breakers in my classes, but when I used a warm- up in my first class, students started talking, jumping, walking, and doing whatever they wanted. So, to get the control of the class after doing such activity was very difficult.

     Nowadays, I have found that having my students doing lots of thinking, reading, handing, or writing tasks makes my students being really involved in the learning process. So I have noticed that letting my students solve critical problems or tasks by themselves, makes them learn not only through their own discoveries but also with some help from me!!!