Do I need to flip my classroom?

Aaron Sams and Jon Bergmann started using Flipped Classroom to cater the learning needs of high school students who missed their classes.

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With this initiative to help their students, it led to the popularity of it where it becomes one of the popular tools to cater to diverse learners.

Watch the video by Aaron Sams and Jon Bergmann below to have some ideas about Flipped Classroom if you have not heard about it before reading my article will be useful.

How does Flipped Classroom work?

Before Class (Initiate idea of concept)

Students will need to view an interactive learning video (5 to 10 min) and complete a simple review of what they watch.

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Low progress learners can watch the video as many times as they need so this cater to the different pace of learning. (Cater to diverse learners)

The purpose of this review is really to ensure students will view the interactive video before coming to class.

During lesson (Application of concept)

With the acquired understanding of the concept, students will try to apply it during lesson.

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The teacher will facilitate and lead students to engage in more meaningful and higher order tasks based on concept learnt from video.

Teacher will not be teaching but facilitate their construction of in-depth concept formation resulting in student-centric rather than teacher-centric.

After class (Extend concept learnt)

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Teacher can assign more complex tasks so that students can check their understanding and extend learning beyond the classroom.

What are the possible benefits of Flipped Classroom?

• Student-centric

• Self-paced learning

• Promote higher-order thinking

• Blended learning

Some possible ways to create our flipped lesson videos.

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• Use your mobile phone/video camera to video yourself teaching the concept

• Create interactive presentations

• Record your voice over the powerpoint slides to explain the concept verbally. (Under the slide show tab, select 'record slide show'. You need to start from the first slide for your voice recording)

• Use free software : Screencast-o-matic

• EdPuzzle

• Find videos made by others

• Have students create their own videos

One great advantage of having these videos for older kids beside for Flipped Classroom is when they forget a concept and ask us, we can pass them the videos to watch on their own rather than explain one by one.

 

In conclusion

Flipped Classroom may take more time when we first started as we may need to refine it based on our students’ profile and progress.

To me, Flipped Classroom is just one of the possible blended learning tools to cater to the diverse learners but we should not use it if there is a better way to help our students.

This article only gives an awareness of the existence of Flipped Classroom if there are teachers who have not heard about it.

Further reading can provide a more comprehensive lesson plan to ensure your students benefit from the implementation of Flipped Classroom.

Disclaimer: This is my personal reflection and I am not in any position to instruct anyone what they should do. I am not responsible for any action taken as a result of this post. My post can only be a reference for your further research and growth. By reading this post, you acknowledge and accept that. All images and pictures were taken from google images that are free from copyright under labelled for reuse.

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