Presentation about the Flipped Classroom model as it applies to ELT. More readings here - http://teachers.schooloftefl.com/forum/topics/the-flipped-curriculum

1. The Flipped
Classroom
(in ELT)
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4. A Question to Begin
What would the flipped version of this
conference be like?

5. It’s about this!

6. Schools Without Walls
It’s not about our teaching, it’s about their learning.
Teachers have to learn to let go!

7. What is the Flipped Classroom?
Instruction outside the classroom
(video based learning)
Practice (homework) inside the classroom

8. The Premise / The Promise

9. The Fisch Flip
“ The idea behind the videos was to flip it. The
students can watch it outside of class, pause it,
replay it, view it several times, even mute me if
they want,” says Fisch, who emphasizes that he
didn’t come up with the idea, nor is he the only
teacher in the country giving it a try. “That allows
us to work on what we used to do as homework
when I’m there to help students and they’re
there to help each other.”
Reverse Instruction / Inverted Classroom Karl Fisch

10. Two Fundamental Conditions
1. The Teacher is “out of the way”
- a self directed learning focus
2. Access to Technology (video)

12. Efficiency

13. The Primacy of Video

15. Teach Yourself
Then
Learn Together

16. A Comparison
Flipped Traditional
Learner Autonomy Learner Dependancy
Differentiated One size fits all
Asynchronous Synchronous
Performance Based Knowledge Based
Facilitator model Authoritarian model
Inductive Deductive

17. How can you
flip - what you do?

18. 3 Possible “ELT” Models
1. Flip Your Usual Lesson Plan
2. Video Practice / Class Performance
3. Practice Pals. Peer to Peer learning.

19. Flip Your Lessons
Upside Down Lesson Delivery
Activity. Why at the end? Class time
Instruction only if needed at
the end or on the fly
Skill Work
Instruction. Explanation.
Why not the activity first?

20. Video + Performance
Practice with video and perform / use the language is classroom activities.

21. Individually | In Class
Skill
Scrimmage
• Watch The Video • Role Play / Task
• Compare / Correct • Practice in new
context (make a
• Vocab. In Context P&J sandwich)
• Repeatable • Formative
Assessment

22. Peer to Peer Learning
Practice Partners
Students teach and practice with each other in the
self study portion of the flipped classroom

23. Some Recommended Tools

24. Discussion

25. This isn’t Teaching!?
No, it isn’t.
That’s the point.
It is learning NOT Teaching.

26. Students won’t do out of class work
A very important criticism. However, if
doing the out of class work is important
to their success with peers in the
classroom, they will more likely do the
work.
The other option is no out of school
work. Allot time for lab and self study
within school hours

27. Not all my students
have a computer or internet access
Try to persuade your school to provide
access and devices to all.
Have extra devices in the classroom for
sign out.
Allot time for student self study at
school.

28. I’m not that tech savvy!
Don’t worry, you don’t have to be.
You don’t have to make videos, curate
content that is pre-made and available
publicly
Give students control over the tech portion of
class study – they’ll respond to responsibility.

29. How do you assess this?
Easily. Use rubrics and better if they are
developed with/by the students.
Focus on alternative and performance
based assessment, what the students
accomplished and can do.
Keep tracking sheets and records – let
the students do the work by filling them
out!

30. My class has too many levels for
this to work!
That’s precisely the greatest reason to use
it!
Students learn at their own level and sharing
with each other actively in class.
Other students are great scaffolds and
mentors. Don’t underestimate your
students as teachers!

31. Isn’t this too much work?
Like anything, it takes time/effort to start up.
But in terms of delivery, once it is started, it
is vastly easier and less stressful than
direct instruction. The pressure is “off” the
teacher. In fact the pressure is “off”
everywhere.

32. How do I start?
Be the guide on the side NOT
the sage on the stage.
Ask students what they want to learn.
Step back, make the students the focus
of attention.

33. How do I start?
Start with Production. Flip your lesson
and deliver it upside down. In class
they should “use” the language.
Increase student talk time dramatically.
Don’t get hung up on specific
“outcomes”. Ask yourself, “are they
learning?”.

34. How do I start?
Start experimenting with your GOOD
classes.
Take a risk and give students the
materials and see what they can do
with the briefest of instruction/outline.
Consciously rein your teaching in and
imagine your class as a living space
and not a working space.

35. Prompts
"the function of a child is to live his own life
— not the life that his anxious parents
think he should live, not a life according to
the purpose of an educator who thinks he
knows best.“
“I’d rather graduate a happy street sweeper
than a thousand neurotic prime ministers.”
-- A.S. Neill

36. Prompts
“the objective of education is learning NOT
teaching.”
“Don’t let your schooling get in the way of
your education” Samuel Clements

37. Prompts
"Education is an admirable thing, but it is
well to remember from time to time that
nothing that is worth learning can be
taught."
-- Oscar Wilde
“You can't learn in school what the world
is going to do next year.”
-- Henry Ford

38. Prompts
"I hear and I forget; I see and I remember;
I do and I understand.” Chinese
proverb
“Give a man a fish; you have fed him for
today. Teach a man to fish; and you
have fed him for a lifetime”

39. Prompts
“Personally, I am always ready to learn,
although I do not always like being
taught.” - Winston Churchill
“I never teach my pupils; I only attempt
to provide the conditions in which they
can learn.”
- Albert Einstein

40. Prompts
“The only kind of learning which significantly
influences behavior is self-discovered or
self-appropriated learning - truth that has
been assimilated in experience.”
- Carl Rogers
“You cannot teach a man anything. You can
only help him discover it within himself.”
- Galileo Galilei

41. Prompts
“The art of teaching is the art of assisting
discovery.”
- Mark Van Doren
“The biggest enemy to learning is the
talking teacher.”
- John Holt

42. Prompts
"The things we know best are the things we
haven't been taught.
- Marquis de Luc Vauvenargues
“If you want to know the taste of a pear, you
must change the pear by eating it yourself. . .
. If you want to know the theory and methods
of revolution, you must take part in
revolution. All genuine knowledge originates
in direct experience.
- Mao Zedong