How would you use the concept of flipped classrooms in your teaching?

                      How would you use the concept of flipped classrooms in your teaching?

           

             Flipped classroom is a different method to teach students. This type of teaching model is more common in higher academic institutions. However, its use may benefit all students from different grade levels. It works by providing students lectures and homework though videos before meeting instructors and students face-to-face in a classroom.
              In my opinion, students benefit from being in flipped classrooms because they can watch the same academic material (homework, lectures, books, articles, Apps,etc.)  as much as they want and need. Through the use of this model, students become familiar with a topic before the face-to-face class start which lets them to have a better understanding. Students also take more interest and responsibility in their own learning which helps them to be more confident, creative, enthusiastic and optimistic with their own abilities. During the class time, educators and students can focus in the application of the new learning activities, discussions, projects, among others, related with the videos.
              This method is an opportunity to convey academic content in a same form and reach each student, for example, visual, auditory, kinesthetic and global learners. According to the article, THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT... FLIPPED CLASSROOMS, captions in videos are helpful for those students with hearing difficulties, while the English Language Learners (ELLs) can watch the lectures as many times as they need to understand the meaning.
               As future educator, elementary teacher, I want to make use of digital learning resources to  teach my students and help myself to be updated with technology in order to learn and expand our 21st century skills. Therefore, I can do it in my flipped classroom. Depending on what grade I teach  I will select the appropriate and more beneficial  type of videos for my students. For example, if I teach to second graders and I want to keep students reading outside school I would use the SPEAKABOOS App ,which is an interactive digital library, and assign a book before class. Then in class all together could talk about it (groups discussion) and apply what they read writing sentences, answering questions about the characters, themes, problems and solutions of that specific story.

           Flipped classroom is a very interesting model that every teacher should consider to encourage students to learn (at their own speed)  inside and outside of the classroom.