Hello everyone!
I am here again to introduce you to a completely new way of teaching! Well, when our teacher introduced us to this way of teaching, I had never heard of it before. However, when I looked up to the internet, I saw it is actually really common. Therefore, maybe it is not completely new for you. I would like to share my experience of using this way of teaching with you.
Our topic is flipped classrooms. In my Current Issues course, we work on different tools with my friends as you know. Flipped classroom in brief, is an approach which carry class lecturing to home. As the name suggests, you literally flip your way of teaching. As the teacher, you record yourself or use a video that teaches your students the intended topic. Your students watch the video and when they come to class, they practice what they have learned.
The advantage of this approach, it leaves enough space to class work. Thus, more activities can be done in the classroom. Also, students who are absent in the class will not fall behind. Additionally, one of the advantages for teachers is that they can reuse the content they have created.
As a disadvantage, not every student may have the necessary technological devices and a good internet connection at home. If even one person in the classroom does not have the necessary technology, the teacher should not perform this practice.
We learned and experienced this useful approach by preparing our own flipped grammar teaching classroom. On account of my experience, we have been given an assignment and wanted to prepare a video that teaches a grammar topic. I and my friend Sude Özer chose "quantifiers". Click HERE to access our video. By the way, I am the person speaking in the first half of the video. We really tried our best to prepare this video. Therefore, I hope you all like it. Please leave your comments below, in the comment section.
We have used Pawtoon to prepare our video. It wasn't easy to do, but it wasn't too difficult either. I didn't know that my time was limited, and then I got scared when I saw that there was a limit. Afterwards, we designed two different videos. It also didn't let me download the videos. Therefore, I uploaded the videos to YouTube and downloaded them from there. Then we combined the two videos. Of course, these happened because we did not purchase premium. Also, we prepared the video first and thought of recording audio when it was finished. However, this made it very difficult for us. Because sometimes the video continued to progress and the part we needed to explain was not finished yet. That's why I had to extend some parts of the video later. This caused us to lose a lot of time.
I also put a table at the end of the video and prepared this table from Canva. I can also say that it took a long time to prepare this video. But I think it was a good experience to do this as a teacher candidate.
Hey hey hey, we're not done yet. In adition to our video, we prepared two quizzes. 'Wordwall' helped us a lot with its fun and simple game templates.
Our first quiz is about countable and uncountable words. In this way, students will have made preliminary preparations for the topic we will teach. Here is our first quiz. The second quiz is about quantifiers. That is the main topic we explain to our students. This is the second quiz.
For today, that is all from me my dear followers. See you in my next post. Love you all!
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