Flipped Classroom

With many years of teaching experience, I reached a point I no longer can teach like the rest.

It is like you realize your students’ potential and how far they can reach with their skills, passion and curiosity.

Standing there in front of the students teaching confirms it is an outdated technique. Students need more 360 degree learning. Understanding and knowing the concepts, theories and information is basic. But practicing their skills, learning through doing, experimenting and exploring is the practical way.

For a while now, I started reading and researching about flipped classroom technique.

Basically its main idea is to convert the classroom into engaging and empowering one. This is where you record the lecture before the actual class. Then you tell your students to listen to the recording and prepare their notes and questions before coming to class.

Upon them arriving the session, you create classroom activities and practical sessions that require them to use the information they learned into practice.

It can be through engaged group discussions, role play activities, debates or creating posters and presentations. There is no limit here. The sky is your limit.

So here where the students would make sense of what they are learning. The learning turns from passive to empowering and engaging. The responsibility shifts from the teacher to both the teachers and students. The learning transforms from boring to interesting and exciting.