The traditional vs the flipped classroom
In a traditional classroom setting, the teacher spends the majority of the hour delivering content to students, and then sends them home to do practice on their own.
Traditional doesn't always mean better, though. How many times have you been working on an assignment outside of the classroom and wished your teacher were right there to answer a question, give you feedback or help you out?
The flipped classroom allows for just such a scenario. Most "teaching" happens outside of the classroom- in our case, via video- to allow us more time in class to practice your Spanish. It is much easier for you as a student to watch a video at home on a grammar topic, and then come to class the next day and practice listening, reading, speaking and writing Spanish in the classroom than it is to do those activities at home.
You can expect that almost all (if not all) grammar "lectures" and PowerPoints will be pre-recorded by me and uploaded to YouTube for you to watch outside of the classroom. You'll be provided with guided notes that you're expected to fill out while you are watching, pausing and rewinding the video as necessary in order to capture all of the information. There will be times you'll be expected to pause the video and practice a concept before pressing play to check your answers. You can expect some sort of short extension or follow up activity to happen after the video, either as part of your notes page or perhaps back on Edmodo or some other site.
The day your notes are "due" I will take questions at the beginning of the hour. However, I try to avoid explicitly teaching grammar in the classroom to the whole class. I firmly believe in teaching you grammar in English. I also firmly believe in 90% of our time in class should be done in Spanish. Using the flipped method of teaching allows me to do both things, which absolutely will help YOU become a stronger Spanish student, by getting important grammar in English and having additional practice time to use your language in the classroom.
If you're not familiar with the flipped method, it does take a bit of getting used to. You as the student will be more responsible for your own learning than you might be used to. However, my promise to you is that if you follow my recommendations we practiced in class on how to watch and engage with a flipped video, you will gain additional skills beyond just Spanish language.
Check back soon for my parent presentation on flipped learning, to be posted after Open House!
Traditional doesn't always mean better, though. How many times have you been working on an assignment outside of the classroom and wished your teacher were right there to answer a question, give you feedback or help you out?
The flipped classroom allows for just such a scenario. Most "teaching" happens outside of the classroom- in our case, via video- to allow us more time in class to practice your Spanish. It is much easier for you as a student to watch a video at home on a grammar topic, and then come to class the next day and practice listening, reading, speaking and writing Spanish in the classroom than it is to do those activities at home.
You can expect that almost all (if not all) grammar "lectures" and PowerPoints will be pre-recorded by me and uploaded to YouTube for you to watch outside of the classroom. You'll be provided with guided notes that you're expected to fill out while you are watching, pausing and rewinding the video as necessary in order to capture all of the information. There will be times you'll be expected to pause the video and practice a concept before pressing play to check your answers. You can expect some sort of short extension or follow up activity to happen after the video, either as part of your notes page or perhaps back on Edmodo or some other site.
The day your notes are "due" I will take questions at the beginning of the hour. However, I try to avoid explicitly teaching grammar in the classroom to the whole class. I firmly believe in teaching you grammar in English. I also firmly believe in 90% of our time in class should be done in Spanish. Using the flipped method of teaching allows me to do both things, which absolutely will help YOU become a stronger Spanish student, by getting important grammar in English and having additional practice time to use your language in the classroom.
If you're not familiar with the flipped method, it does take a bit of getting used to. You as the student will be more responsible for your own learning than you might be used to. However, my promise to you is that if you follow my recommendations we practiced in class on how to watch and engage with a flipped video, you will gain additional skills beyond just Spanish language.
Check back soon for my parent presentation on flipped learning, to be posted after Open House!