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On March 7th, we met once again in one of the most beautiful cities in the world: Sevilla. On our first day there, Monica and Esther, members of Incoma --the organisation hosting the second LLT activity-- introduced themselves and explained what the programme of activities during that week would be. Incoma is a very experienced organisation which is already involved in a lot of Erasmus + projects and we were certain that we were going to learn a lot from them.
After the presentations, we started off the session by discussing about the necessity of implementing new methodologies in education. It was generally agreed that we must detach from the use of textbooks; "they are just a tool" was pointed out by one of the participants. We were only warming up and right away we got our teeth into the methodology our whole project is based on: Flipped Classroom.
A little bit of brainstorming using this fabulous web tool Interactive presentation software - Mentimeter. This is really a very useful tool if you want your students to share their thoughts on something with you!
We went on to dig deeper into the matter and Esther talked to us about Bloom's Taxonomy and the four pillars of F.L.I.P.
Esther explained to us that in Flipped Classroom, it is very important that the teacher sets the phases of the task:
Before: The teacher has to provide the students with the necessary information to carry out a task (by making a video or selecting one). The teacher has to make sure the students have free access to the content. It is also important that the students get motivated and engaged in this phase.
During: In-class activities follow, where the the kids are assigned roles if they are working together. They can share their problems and questions with the teacher and other students. Student's should have a corner where they can access the content again if they need to before they start with the task.
After: students' learning get assessed.
Esther reminded us that although summative assessment is sometimes the most common type of assessment, formative assessment has to be an important part of the process.
We also discussed about the role of the teacher in class and the reasons why we should all flip the classroom. Finally we watched a video of an US primary school class that had introduced FL into the classroom. The teacher assured that results had seriously gone up.
On the following day we dealt with various points of education. We talked about diversity and inclusivity in the classroom. We talked about the introduction of laptops (Chromebooks) in the classroom and someone made us aware of the technological gap there is in some groups. Esther gave us some tips on how to use G-Suite and talked about the fact there are a lot of resources Google provide educators with.
Then we went on to talk about Project Based Learning and Cooperative Learning. We were encouraged to use these two methodologies while we are flipping the classroom.
According to the DISC website: "DISC – Digital Skills for Integration and Active Citizenship – it is a three-year project co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union aiming at enhancing digital skills of people with a migratory background and thus supporting their integration and promoting active citizenship.
The rationale behind the project is based on upscaling of two best practices – the LAUREA’s Multisensory Space and the SMART PLUS self-assessment tool by INCOMA."
Next day we were introduced to DISC (Digital Skills for Integration and Active Citizenship) by Marina, another member of the Incoma organisation.
Marina started the season by defining what a digital citizen and digital citizenship Education are. Then she moved on to talk about "Multi-sensory Space". She explained what the objectives are and she pointed out the steps to create this.
Later we started working on a small DISC project in groups of five. We had to be able to deliver a presentation while creating a multi-sensorial space task.
One of the groups gave a presentation in which a connection of spices and cultures was established. They used a very simple video to create this Multisensorial Space. It is true no one will win an Oscar here, but we did have a lot fun doing it.
Since it had been the International Women's Day a few days back, the other group created a thoroughly interesting presentation about women in different cultures.
After presenting our work in groups, we had a debate about the results we had had. We were both impressed with the job both groups have done. "Do we see us doing this type of activity in our classes?" was one of the most repeated questions throughout this course.
On the next day we were invited to St. Mary's multilingual school. I must say that it was definitely one of the highlights of the whole week. We totally enjoyed our visit and were delighted with the job that the three young students who showed us around did. Both their attitude and English were outstanding. Well done!
St. Mary's multilingual school is an example of a school that has already integrated Flipped Classroom in their classes. It is a student-centred model where the ICT and the learning of languages play a very important role.
On our last day we evaluated the DISC task we had done and discussed what elements from that project we considered Flipped Classroom.
We also carried out a little survey about the course and received our diplomas!
Sadly, it was the last day and we had to say goodbye until the next meeting.
Thanks a lot Incoma!
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