Instructions
Your personal page serves at least three purposes. It is a place for you to:
take notes
enable your flipped presentation
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:Tay Teck Seng
School:Punggol Secondary School
Role:SH/Normal (Technical)
Part A: Article on Flipped Classrooms
1. Definition and origins of the "flipped classroom"
Definition
Flipped classroom is a form of blended learning. Students learn new content online at their own pace by watching video lectures, usually at home. Teachers have more time in class for interactions with students on classwork guidance.
Origin
Baker presented "The classroom flip: using web course management tools to become the guide by the side" at the 11th International Conference on College Teaching and Learning. Baker's article presents the model of classroom flipping. Flipped classroom was made popular by Aaron Sams and Jonathan Bergmann. They are high school chemistry teachers in Woodland Park, Colo., who wrote a book called “Flip Your Classroom: Reach Every Student in Every Class Every Day,” based on their own experience.
2. What the flipped classroom is/is not
Flipped classroom IS about
students learning new content online at their own pace by watching video lectures.
learning can take place anywhere, usually at home.
students can repeat the video lesson if they don't understand.
teachers, saves time by spending less time in teaching content knowledge.
teachers have more time to optimize learning in class.
teachers can now offer more personalized guidance to students work and interaction with students.
teachers can carry out meaningful activities in class.
teachers can facilitate active learning in class.
a pedagogical solution in engaging students' learning
Flipped classroom is NOT about
extending the curriculum time.
Khan's academy
a replacement of teachers. Teachers still plays an important role in class.
only delivering content through video
technological solution for classroom issues.
3. Designing, developing, evaluating, and managing flipped classrooms
Design phase
Defining the vision of a flipped classroom and the new role of teachers in flipped classroom. What should the teachers be doing in class in flipped classroom.
Decide on pilot level and teachers involved.
Training plan for teachers.
Content creation. Which lessons suitable for flipped classroom? Is there going to be fixed days for flipped classroom, eg. every Tuesday and Friday? Decide on duration of flipped lessons.
Resource planning. Availability of facilities to support teachers. Availability of computer facilities to FAS students. Decide on software needed.
Pinned down key milestones for evalutation and tracking.
Put in structure to support the programme like white space for content development and review.
Forming of ICT task force with ICT mentors from various departments to spearhead the project.
Buying-in phase
Sharing of vision and strategies to school leaders and SMC.
Teachers briefing during contact time
Parents briefing and feedback session to harness and address concerns
Students briefing to clarify what and how flipped classroom is going to be like.
Developing phase
Provide training to teachers on both software, process and system.
Content creation of lessons as a team with ICT mentor during TTT.
Implementation phase
Roll out programme with pilot class first.
Video the lesson for sharing and review with teachers.
Give feedback to reaffirm teachers' effort and suggestion some areas for improvement.
Evaluation
Gather feedback from teachers and students on flipped classroom teaching and learning regularly. Qualitative feedback.
Tracking of students learning through results from summative assessment. Quantitative feedback.
At milestone, review and improve on programme.
Managing and sustain
Keep teachers motivated intrinsically and extrinsically. Sharing during contact time on good flipped lessons.
Training for new teachers to be included in school induction programme
Update teachers on learning progress and results on semester basis.
Facility update and upgrade if necessary to support flipped classroom. Update teachers on new software tools.
Revisit the programme every year. Area for improvement (AFI) meeting are to be conducted and reviewed.
4. Flipped classroom issues and solutions
Some of the issues of flipped classroom are
a) Buying-in of all stakeholders, eg. school leaders, teachers, students and parents. Parents may criticize the method of delivery, pedagogy of lessons and how it will affects students results.
b) Teachers resistant to changes. How much extra time and effort needed to prepare screencast?
c) How to sustain flipped classroom?
d) How do we monitor or ensure all students watch the video at home?
e) For students under FAS or do not have computers at home, what can be done?
f) If classroom lectures are already boring, how can we help the teacher to create interesting flipped lessons?
Solutions
a) Buying in.
Need to stress the benefits of flipped classroom. More classroom time for teacher to guide students in meaningful activities.
This needs to be supported by by demonstration to show how a flipped classroom is like. Video recording of class lesson and show it to parents.
Regular updates of progress, learning status and results, especially on first year of implementation
b) Provide Support to teachers.
Training for teachers.
Lab, TA support for teachers
Conduct demo class and invite teachers/school leaders in for classroom observation
Online reference manual/guide for teachers
White space for lesson preparation
Sharing or resources
c) To sustain flipped classroom, we need to look into the motivation of teachers
Intrinsic motivation
More engaging lessons and more meaningful classroom interactions with students.
Students able to learn.
Recognition by school leaders or fellow school teachers.
Extrinsic motivation
Reuseable video resources for sharing.
Better support and ICT facilities.
d) Need to have a system to monitor students access through school LMS. Students who did not watch video repeatedly without valid reasons will be counselled and have to stay back after school to view the video.
e) Neu PC scheme or other fundings to help students to purchase computers. If not, made computer facilities available in computer lab or library available to these students after school.
f) Reporting officers and ICT mentor can help and advice. Sharing of good flipped lesson during white space or department meeting can help.
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
Plan
Level : Sec 1 and 2 Normal Technical classes (total 2 classes, 40 students in each class)
Content area : Computer Applications (Theory)
Number of teachers : 4. Support staff : 2 (TA and ICT executive)
Software : Pow-toon or screen-o-matics
Computer facilities : All Sec 1 and 2 NT will have chromebook by early Semester 2 as part of school 1-to-1 computing programme.
Forming of task-force to include ICT mentors (from various department) and above 4 teachers.
Target : At least one component of every theory lessons should be flipped.
Time : 2015 Rollout
Buying-in
Share one youtube video on flipped classroom in Semester 1 with school teachers. Have a feel on initial reaction to this pedagogy.
Discuss with School Leaders first to get go-ahead. (Term 3 2014)
Sharing in SMC(School Management Committee) to Key personels on plan (Term 3 2014)
Sharing in Contact time to teachers. Form circle group discussions to harness feedback and concerns. (Term 4 2014)
Sharing of Flipped classroom to students during year-head time (Jan 2015). Dry-run on how to access the video elements.
Sharing of Flipped classroom to Parents during MTPS (Meet the parents session) in Term 1 2015
Professional development
Software training on flipped classroom lesson software (Term 4)
PLC sharing (one per week after school contact time)
Lesson observation and review (two lesson observation per term)
Evaluation
Milestone check with students and teachers after one term, Qualitative feedback.
Results analysis (CA and SA) for summative assessment
End of year AFI meeting, review and collating of curriculum content in common area.
TimeLine
Part C: Flipped Presentation
Embed your presentation for Part B here. You may include notes in a shared Google Doc if you wish.
Your peers will view this presentation before the last session and provide formative feedback.
http://www.powtoon.com/p/e3SnfXp2tC5/#.UwtsUcPEAQc.gmail