In modern classrooms, teachers are more like guide and students are in the center. There are a lot of methods to incorporate active learning into the classrooms and Flipped Classroom Method is one of them.
The flipped classroom was invented in 2007 by Jonathan Bergman and Aaron Sams when they began recording their classroom lectures so that students could access them at home. In their book: Flip your classroom: Reach every student in every class every day (2012), they discussed a couple of reasons why teachers should consider flipping (p.20-33):
- Flipping speaks the language of today’s students.
- Flipping helps busy students.
- Flipping helps struggling students.
- Flipping helps students of all abilities to excel.
- Flipping allows students to pause and rewind their teacher.
- Flipping increases student-teacher interaction.
- Flipping allows teachers to know their students better.
- Flipping increases student-student interaction.
- Flipping allows for real differentiation.
- Flipping changes classroom management.
- Flipping changes the way we talk to parents.
- Flipping educate parents.
- Flipping makes your class transparent.
- Flipping is a great technique for absent teachers.
- Flipping can lead to the flipped mastery program.
A flipped classroom is a type of blended learning. In this method, students are introduced the new content at home and they practice it at school. Normally, at schools, teachers introduce the new content at schools and students are given homework to practice at home. In other words, students do their homework at school. This is why this method is called “flipped”.
It is important for teachers to have technological knowledge in order to use this method, because technology is mostly used in that kind of learning. For example; students might watch a video at home and they come to school with questions. Even if they can’t fully understand the concept, they have some background knowledge.
At home students might also read classroom material, perform research, participate an online discussion, review online course material. For all of those, teachers need to prepare the materials in advance. However, once you prepare the materials, you can use them again and again. You should first plan how you will use class time before you begin to look for resources for students to use at home. A flipped classroom model involves a lot of work by students outside of class. You should teach students how to use the material at home and explain them how this method will help them learn better the content and how much time they will save in classroom.
At school students practice their skills, perform discussions and debates, make presentations, lab experiments and peer assessments.
Jeff Dunn (2014) has wrote a short piece on “The 6-step guide to flipping your classroom”, which presented 6 easy steps for implementing flipped classroom; Plan, Record, Share, Change, Group, Regroup.
Flipped classrooms provide personalization as well as independence from the teacher. Also, they are at home and they have a chance to pause or rewind if they need to. In this method, students practice under the guidance of their teachers. With this method, you waste less time transferring information to students when that information is available to them in books or online and you increase collaboration between students.
So, what do you think about Flipped Classrooms? Have you implemented this method in your classes? You can share your lesson plans and materials in he comments!
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References:
https://www.teachthought.com/learning/definition-flipped-classroom/
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