Hello, everyone! I am back again with a new and interesting topic and project the discuss with you all. I hope that you are okay. First of all, as you see in the title, today's topic will be about the flipped classroom approach, its pros and cons, our flipped instructional video for A1-A2 9th grade students in preparatory classes of high schools with my peer Ertuğrul İğdir, the process that we went through the task, and some brief information about the tool that we worked on during the task. So, let's begin!
To begin with, the flipped approach is the approach in which traditional classroom approaches and norms go into reverse. That is, traditional lectures in the classroom are placed in virtual environments where students can realize their self-learning processes in their individual learning spaces. These environments are highly dynamic, interactive, and lively in that students watch the target educational contents outside the classroom and engage with them before they come to the class for classroom-based discussions and activities for group learning. As a result, the flipped instruction has several advantages as follows:
shorter period to get prepared for the target topic and a more abundant period for the activities related to the topic.
face-to-face element of the course being used to the fullest by not wasting valuable classroom time.
encouraging self-paced learning, self-autonomy, interaction, learner engagement, and motivation.
students regulating their learning processes based on their needs and preferences.
allowing differentiated instruction and learning.
decreasing classroom management problems.
improving the comprehension of the topic and academic skills.
As for the disadvantages, some of them can be accounted for as follows:
lack of technological infrastructure.
unfavorable learner and teacher attitudes (i.e. learners' unwillingness to take part in and watch the flipped videos)
non-completion of the task that the teacher has assigned.
the need for students' effective self-regulation.
Another topic to discuss is our flipped teaching video that my peer Ertuğrul and I have prepared and shot. Our target audience is preparatory class studends with a proficiency level of A1-A2 in high schools and the schools are mostly state schools. The grammar topic that we have chosen comes from https://ogmmateryal.eba.gov.tr/etkilesimli-kitap/hazirlik-ingilizce?s=4&d=39&u=0&k=0 as a material source. We have chosen to cover the topic "Present Perfect Tense" for the students to watch the video outside the classroom and come to the classroom having studied it. We have covered what the structure of "Present Perfect Tense" is, what its functions are, and some signal words used in this tense. We prepared grammar checkpoints for students to practice the topic in contextualized sentences and a quiz for students to check at home before coming to the classroom.
The other topic to discuss is the challenges or problems that we went through the task process. The problems were partially about the content that was prepared and the application for screen recording. We preapared all the contents that we would cover on Canva in the form of presentation and we added necessary sets of information that we would touch upon. However, we had difficulty in organizing the sequence and the flow of the topic, the page layout, avoiding redundant information, coherence between the pages,the tone of our voices, etc. We prepared our presentation in the light of Meyer's (2009) Twelve Principles of Multimedia Design. Furthermore, we had difficulty in hearing each other before recording because of the Internet connection while recording on Zoom. We solved the content presentation problem by searching and reading the principles of Mayer and we again solved the Zoom problem by enhancing the Internet connection quality.
However, we had to rehearse the recording at least 10 times for it to be flawless in the recording and we shot again and again. This was a frustrating process to do but we still managed to shoot the video as we wished after all. During the recording, we divided the workload as me covering all the grammar points to discuss and Ertuğrul covering grammar checkpoints and solving the quiz specifically designed for the students to do at home.
Lastly, I want to clarify that we used Zoom for recording in the form of free plan and we shot the video approximately in 5 minutes length. Additionally, we used Wordwall for creating a quiz about Present Perfect Tense with an activity type unjumbling sentences without paying any amount of money. Here are their links below:
Zoom: https://zoom.us/
Wordwall: https://wordwall.net/
Our quiz on Wordwall: https://wordwall.net/resource/65641345/put-them-in-an-order
Here are our flipped teaching video about Present Perfect Tense and my peer Ertuğrul's blog link. Thank you for reading until this sentence. See you soon, take care!
My peer's blog link: https://ertugruligdir.blogspot.com/2024/01/present-perfect-tense-but-flipped.html