Flipped Classroom
This course aims to support school staffs with a new and innovative approach namely flipping their classes integrating ICT (Information and Communication Technology) based learning in their personal and professional development and school environment in line with priorities of Erasmus Plus Program. Traditionally in education teachers plan lessons in this order: objectives, lecture, assesment. Teachers put together their learning objectives/outcomes, then they plan out how they will explain the material to the students through lecture and then finish off the planning process by coming up with assessments. More typical assessments were exams and papers, with some group projects here thrown in the mix. When designing a flipped lesson it's important that teachers take a different approach since the entire delivery process is changing. Backward design is a lesson planning process that take places in the following orders goals, evaluation, lessons. It's always important to plan the goals/outcomes first, as these are guidelines of what we want our students to achieve from the lesson. In other sense, objective writing to extract the necessery information from non-essential information. After that it is important to plan the assessment because we choose or students to listen to the lectures on their own. If our in-class assessment/activity isn't well thought out and weak, the flipped lesson will be as well. So immediately after you plan out your objectives create an assessment/activity that is a direct reflection of your objectives. Once you have the first two steps planned, then create the lecture media. This process will be easy because by now you'll have your thoughts well organized and the assessment/activity already planned out. All you have to do now is deliver to them the information that they need to be prepared for their assessment. As a course provider, we want to develop the teachers’ professional skills, and introduce to appropriate websites related to 21st-century teaching methods focusing on creative thinking with interactive and inspiring workshops in a friendly atmosphere. Learning Outcomes All the participants will: * Learn modernization of your teaching style * Develop a school policy plan on flipping lessons integrating ICT tools to the school curriculum * Write your learning objectives * Plan how you will assess students * Create lessons using technology to present knowledge * Find out the ways to create flipped classroom lessons * Manage time to assess learning objectives through * Understand how the flipped classroom provides an environment for individualized learning * Create a lesson plan for the assessment that will be performed in the classroom * Cover the different types of activities a teacher can use to assess their flipped lesson * Get the gist of Differentiated Classroom * Find out the basis of differentiating assessment ways and methods * Understand the importance of group dynamic * Introduce you to ICT skills and pedagogical skills * Utilization of ICT in your teaching * Develop positive attitudes towards ICT on the part of teachers and principals * Improve your own teaching methods in relation to technology * Manage and integrate ICT in your lessons * Develop your ICT skills and make use of various Web 2.0 Technology tools and programs. You will be given the opportunity to try out and have practice and get feedback all the programs introduced to you. * Adapt of the use of the tools to your teaching & learning situations & contexts * Focus on effective teaching strategies Objectives of the Course * Organizing the differences between traditional teaching and flipped classroom modeling * Analyzing key issues and concerns in flipping classroom * Create a media lecture and upload it into the Sophia.org tutorial * Getting familiar use of the tools to different teaching & learning situations & contexts * Identifying effective teaching strategies * Flipping the classroom assessments * Using of a virtual learning environment * Providing practical guidance to the use of a range of ICT tools, designing lessons based on ICT and flipped classroom modeling * Examining effective teaching strategies that encourage the active involvement of all students in productive educational tips for how to develop strategies to improve the educational quality of the school. * Applying technology to create media for the flipped lesson * Getting know the importance of including notes, worksheets, PDF files etc. to supplement the lesson media * Creating a lesson plan * Identifying what technologic resources are available to the students Methodology * Supporting school staffs with a new and innovative approach namely flipping their classes integrating ICT, * Identifying the concepts of Flipped Classroom * Developing the teachers’ professional skills * Focusing on creative thinking * Brainstorming * Designing lesson plans