What is Flipped Classrooms

1. Have the tasks and techniques I use in class
become rituals and ends in themselves?
Do I need to shift preoccupation from running
a successful task to optimising learning?
Jim Scrivener and Adrian Underhill. Demand High Teaching. English Teaching Professional. March 2013
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2. Slow it Down or Speed it Up…

3. Flipping It Over

4. 01
Focus on your
Learners by
Involving them in the
Process
FLIP it Over

5. Where did it come from?
✤ 2007 Jonathan Bergman and Aaron Sams discovered software to record
PowerPoint presentations.
✤ They recorded and posted their live lectures for students who were absent.
✤ The online lectures started spreading.

6. What is it?
✤ " almost any class structure that provides prerecorded lectures followed by in-class
exercises"
✤ "Short video lectures are viewed by students at home before the class session, while in-
class time is devoted to exercises, projects, or discussions."
Educause
✤ "A reversed teaching model that delivers instruction at home through interactive,
teacher-created videos and moves “homework” to the classroom."
Green

7. What does it mean to flip?

8. InTraditional classrooms…
✤ students get the information at first hand from the teacher, regardless of the
method used.
✤ Student would practice and get the expansion at home
✤ Flipped classes gives it more of a student centred approach.

9. ✤ At the moment of planning.
✤ it's tempting to aim our class at the middle
of the group.
✤ Susan Purcell suggests to not do this
✤ frustrating for all, ones will get bored, the
others lost
Why?

10. What are we asking students to do?
✤ Be in charge of their learning
✤ Take decisions and make choices
✤ To enable us to trust them

11. What do we have to do?
✤ a shift of attitude:
✤ learners are capable of more than we typically ask of them
✤ a change of focus of teacher energy:
✤ moving from preoccupation with the mechanics of activity, task and material
towards making the learning itself visible;
✤ tweaks in technique:
✤ well-tuned interventions and higher skill sets of classroom management.

12. What do we have to do?
✤ Plan ahead
✤ When the process is more difficult than the introduction and the teacher's
aid could mean the difference between succeeding and failing, shouldn't we
give it a go?

13. How to go about it?

14. What is the real essence?
✤Students at home watch videos prepared by teacher before the class
✤Students do the practice and expansion in class with the teacher

15. CreatingVideos

16. Off to the students
✤ Give students the link and tell them to watch it before coming to class.
✤ Give them links to extra online material so they can have some instant
feedback
✤ most books have extra online exercises

17. In class
✤ In class we become assistants.
✤ Most books come with expansion so they can do it with you there and ask
questions when they get stuck.
✤ Revise what was shown
✤ Weaker students will feel more comfortable and even participate more.

18. Example

19. In Summary…

20. A Few tips
✤ Start with learning goals
✤ Use rich imagery an direct language
✤ Make videos that revel what students know
✤ Keep videos short. Maximum 7 min

21. Pros
✤ Students control speed and when
✤ Promotes student-centred learning
and collaboration
✤ Lessons and content are more
accessible (no more excuses)
✤ It can be more efficient
✤ Create or exacerbate digital divide
✤ Relies on preparation and trust
✤ Significant work on the front end
✤ No naturally a test-prep form of
learning
✤ Time in front of screens instead of ...
Cons
Acedo. M, (2014) 10 pros and Cons of a Flipped Classroom.Available at: http://www.teachthought.com/trends/10-pros-cons-flipped-classroom/

23. Keep in Mind…
✤ It's just one MORE method.
✤ You do not have to get married!
✤ You will always have those reluctant students.
✤ It's meant to help and not complicate, but all new things take time.

25. Bibliography
✤ (2014) The definition of the flipped classroom, Teachthought, Available at: http://www.teachthought.com/learning/the-definition-of-the-
flipped-classroom/ Accessed 115th July, 2014
✤ Acedo. M, (2013), Pros and cons of a flipped classroom, Available at: http://www.teachthought.com/trends/10-pros-cons-flipped-classroom/
Accessed 15th July, 2014.
✤ Finley. T, (2014) 4 big things transformational teachers do, Edutopia, Available at: http://www.edutopia.org/blog/big-things-transformational-
teachers-do-todd-finley?spMailingID=9122311&spJobID=342440714&spReportId=MzQyNDQwNzE0S0&spUserID=MjcyNjEzMTUyNzES1
Accessed 29th July, 2014.
✤ Hirsch. J, (2014), 4 tips for flipped learning. Edutopia, Available at: http://www.edutopia..org/blog/4-tips-for-flipped-learning-joe-hirsch
Accessed 24th July, 2014
✤ Honeycutt. B (2012) 101 ways to flip, FlipIt Consultancy. Kindle version
✤ Purcell.S (2013) Mixed ability teaching. English teaching professional, January 2013
✤ Scriviner.J, Underhill. A (2013) Demand high teaching. English teaching professional. March 2103

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