A teacher chooses a warm-up activity that is just meant to keep students busy. It is a word search about famous bands, but it does not pertain to the students’ lesson. The teacher believes that the only way he can get the beginning of class tasks done is by keeping the students doing busy work, but academic work wouldn’t keep them engaged enough.
A teacher chooses a warm-up activity that spirals information they have already learned and is a slight introduction to the new topic they will be learning that day. This teacher recently read an article that explains relating what students already know to new topics helps them retain the information better.
The campus leader can find ways to motivate the teacher with a fixed mindset by offering some warm up activities that go with his next few lesson plans. The leader will ask him to use them and will follow up with him the next week. This will require patience, as well.
For the teacher with the growth mindset, the campus leader can support them and offer them an opportunity to lead a small team in implementing these types of warm up activities.
