FLIPPED CLASSROOM

FLIPPED CLASSROOM

What is a flipped classroom?

Blended learning: A formal education program in which a student learns at least in part through online delivery of indtrucuion and content with some element of student control over time, place, path and / or pace and at least in part in a supervised brick-and-mortar place away from home

Flipped learning: A model involves courses that move the traditional lecture, or content dissemination, away from face to face hours and into online deliveryoutside of class time. This time is usedfor practice and actual application rather than for introducing the content beign studied.

Why flip?

Flexibility

1. Access to materials 24/7.

2. Choice of when and where to study.

3. Opportunities to cover materials in more depth.

4. Creates time for complex problems solving.

Personalisation

1. Provides opportunities for self-pacing

2. Provides individual support

3. Helps with specific learning differences.

4. Is student-centred

Active Learning

1. Creates more opportunities for peer-to-peer feedback.

2. Encourages more collaboration between students

3. Focuses on higher order skills

Motivation

1. Encourages students to become autonomous learners.

2. Provides opportinities for real world language application.

3. Helps students developproffessional skills.

Challenges of flipping

Teachers

Heavy upfront work load.

Students

Technical issues

Insufficient knowledge

Organisational or metacognitive skills.

Before flipping

Communication to students essential

Communication to collegues

What to flip?

1. Grammar presentations.

2. Exam format and facts.

3. Exam techniques.

4. Real- world language preacice.

5. Wrting workshop ( presentations/peer-review)

Using course book materials to flip

In class exam pracice: Speaking

Out of class real world consolidation: Describing or intoducing yourself

Using coursebook materials to flip

In class exam practice: writing a letter application

Out of class real world consolidation: online job research

Flipped activity ideas

1. Collaborative wiki to createan exam advice sheet for new students.

2. You Tube video to explain a grammatical structure.

3. You Tube video to demonstrate correct and incorrect body language.

4. Learning journal-blog

5. Creating a blog: students interviews

6. Use Padlet to collect information from ss about exam concerns

Online tools

Create interactive mind maps: mindomo.com

Create fun and interactive callaborative experiences: mentimeter

Design collaborative content: canva.com

Pre-record presentations and instructions: loom.com

Turn You Tube and Ted talks content into structured digital lessons: ed. ted.com

Create grammar/ writing instructions videos: vimeo.com

CEFR vocabulary level checker: languageresearch.cambridge.org

Don´ts

Don´t go over the same material in class-based lessons as youdid in pre/post- learning.

Don´t use the class-based lesson to increasethe pre-learning.

Don´t do nothing with the pre-learning.

Dos

1. Do use quizzes in class to test understanding

2. Do give reasons to watch videos

3. Do provide clear instructions

4. Do have clear aims

5. Do show links to class.based activities

6. Do include expected time to complete / deadlines

7. Do give background resources/ links.

8. Do have a numbered list of steps

9. Do start each step with a verb

10. Do monitor nd provide feedback if using online collaborative tools