2014-01 Koh Ern Hui, Emmeline

Instructions

Your personal page serves at least three purposes. It is a place for you to:

1. take notes

2. enable your flipped presentation

3. submit your individual assignment

Use the rough scaffold below as a guide. You may add headers and content, but not remove any.

Part A: Imagine that you are submitting a Wikipedia article on the flipped classroom. Draft your article here. Bear in mind that your writing will be public and subject to scrutiny and critique. What would you write to educate others like your school principal and colleagues about the flipped classroom.

Part B and C: You are a manager of other teachers, Suggest a plan for a group of teachers to flip their classrooms. Prepare a flipped presentation in Part C to get formative feedback on your plans.

Refrain from uploading presentation or other files to this space. Instead, host your files in the cloud and embed them in your page. For help on how to do this, refer to the iTunes U courses provided by CeL in the Resources section or search Google or YouTube.

Name: Koh Ern Hui Emmeline

School: Anchor Green Primary School

Role: HOD/ ICT

Part A: Article on Flipped Classrooms

1. Definition and origins of the "flipped classroom"

· Aaron Sams and Jonathan Bergmann were the ones who made “flipped classroom” popular in year 2007.

· The flip precursors were from “ The Inverted classroom, JIT teaching and Peer Instruction” which all started from 1997.

· Flipped classroom is to change the way the teachers teach and the teachers' perspectives.

· It is also to change the way the students learn in a traditional classroom setting. The student can choose where to learn and when to learn in a structured way.

2. What the flipped classroom is/is not

· The flipped classroom is to deliver the content to the students through the teachers’ created video clips and the pupils’ learning is done at home.

· The teachers will take on the facilitating roles to clarify doubts and assist the students with their work in class during the curriculum time.

· In a flipped classroom, the curriculum time is set aside for the students to connect with one another, communicate with their peers and create their own knowledge and understanding.

· In a flipped classroom setting, the students will be able to play/ replay the videos at their own pace and do their own learning.

· It is a shifted of teachers’ delivery of content to learners’ practicing what have been learnt.

In summary

Flipped classroom is:-

· Meaningful activities

· Optimized opportunities for feedback and coaching

· Facilitating active learning

· Pedagogical solution

. Flipped classroom is not:-

· E-learning

· Video lectures

· Extension of curriculum time

· Technology solution

3. Designing, developing, evaluating, and managing flipped classrooms

When designing and developing flipped classrooms, do consider the following:

• Availability of resources ( i.e ICT equipment in school and at home, manpower)

• Readiness of the students and teachers. Ideal to have a group of teachers to work collaboratively in designing and developing the resources for flipped classrooms

• Support from the school and parents

• Just in Time training for students and teachers to use the platforms for flipped classrooms to take place

• Share success stories

When evaluating a flipped classroom, do consider the following:

• Design mini quiz to evaluate students’ progress and understanding of topic.

• Feedbacks from students, teachers and parents.

When managing a flipped classroom, do consider the following:-

· Clear instruction for teachers and students

· Good articulation of goals and objectives to all stakeholders ( i.e Parents, students and teachers)

· Proper structure must be put in place

· Start small initially

· Provide a channel for stakeholders to raise queries.

Tools that we can use for FC

• • YouTube videos

  • ToonDoo

  • PowToons

  • Padlet

  • Linoit

  • Goanimate

4. Flipped classroom issues and solutions

5. References

Part B: Flipped Classrooms in My Context

Outline a plan for mobilizing a group teachers who will flip their classrooms. You might:

• • Describe your context (what levels, what content areas, how many teachers, etc.)

  • Devise plans for communication, buy-in, professional development, evaluation, etc.

  • Provide a timeline

Flipped Classroom in my School’s Context

Level: Primary 5 teachers

Content Areas: General

No. of teachers involved: Teachers / KPs who are keen (at least 3 teachers)

Current Realities

· Teachers teach the content in class.

· Workbook activities or worksheets will be assigned for pupils to complete at home.

· The Higher Ability pupils were not engaged in class as they have already understood the content while the Lower Ability pupils will not be able to get a chance to answer and fear that they might answer incorrectly. Often, the Higher Ability pupils and Middle Ability pupils will get the chance to answer the questions in class.

Objectives/ Desired outcomes

· To cultivate self-directed and collaborative learners

· Equal learning opportunities for all pupils.

· Pupils will learn at home and engage in more meaningful activities in class.

Plans for communication, buy-in, professional development, evaluation

Timeline for Implementation

Part C: Flipped Presentation

Pls click on the link to view my flipped presentation http://tinyurl.com/mls126-emme