Flipping the classroom involves much more than adding technology and out-of-class video activities to your lessons; it requires both teachers and students to “flip” the way they fundamentally view education.
----Marie Webb(SanDiego State University)
WHAT IS FLIPPED CLASSROOM
The flipped classroom is a pedagogical model in which the typical lecture and homework elements of a course are reversed. The notion of a flipped classroom draws on such concepts as active learning, student engagement, hybrid course design, and course podcasting.The value of a flipped class is in the repurposing of class time into a workshop where students can inquire about lecture content, test their skills in applying knowledge, and interact with one another in hands-on tivities. During class sessions, instructors function as coaches or advisors, encouraging students in individual inquiry and collaborative effort.
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HOW DOES IT WORK?
There is no single model for the flipped classroom—the term is widely used to describe almost any class structure that provides prerecorded lectures followed by in-class exercises. In one common model, students might view multiple lectures of five to seven minutes each. Online quizzes or activities can be interspersed to test what students have learned. Immediate quiz feedback and the ability to rerun lecture segments may help clarify points of confusion. Instructors might lead in-class discussions or turn the classroom into a studio where students create, collaborate, and put into practice what they learned from the lectures they view outside class.
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As on-site experts, instructors suggest various approaches, clarify content, and monitor progress. They might organize students into an ad- hoc workgroup to solve a problem that several are struggling to understand. Because this approach represents a comprehensive change in the class dynamic, some instructors have chosen to implement only a few elements of the flipped model or to flip only a few selected class sessions during a term.
THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN FLIPPED CLASSROOM AND OTHER ONLINE LEARNING
The Flipped Classroom is NOT:
• A synonym for online videos. When most people hear about the flipped class all they think about are the videos. It is the interaction and the meaningful learning activities that occur during the face-to-face time that is most important. • About replacing teachers with videos. • An online course. • Students working without structure. • Students spending the entire class staring at a computer screen. • Students working in isolation. |
FLIPPED CLASSROOM IN ENGLISH LEARNING IN CHINA
Somebody who favor this pedagogy:
1) There are many schools and universities which have attemped to flip their classrooms and students are curious about this new method and feel fresh about it.
2) It is one kind of personalized learning which focus on the participation of every student.
3) There is a great change about the relationship between the teacher and students.
4) If assessed properly, students will be activated in English learning.
Somebody who concern about this pedagogy:
1) Students will get more burden for watching another video or reading more materials.
2) Some poor families can not have enogh money for the video devices.
3) The traditional classroom setting in China's school is not proper for flipping.
4) Flipped classroom is only appropriate for self-discipline students.
5) There should be a new way of assessment to evalute students.
1) There are many schools and universities which have attemped to flip their classrooms and students are curious about this new method and feel fresh about it.
2) It is one kind of personalized learning which focus on the participation of every student.
3) There is a great change about the relationship between the teacher and students.
4) If assessed properly, students will be activated in English learning.
Somebody who concern about this pedagogy:
1) Students will get more burden for watching another video or reading more materials.
2) Some poor families can not have enogh money for the video devices.
3) The traditional classroom setting in China's school is not proper for flipping.
4) Flipped classroom is only appropriate for self-discipline students.
5) There should be a new way of assessment to evalute students.