Upside Down Classes
Greetings! Have you ever wondered what it would be like if homework and class switched places? Well, I haven’t, but that is what I thought when I first heard about the flipped approach. It is a type of classroom practice where you assign your students with learning the subject of the class at home. For example, making them watch a video about it. And in the actual lesson you spend time practicing said subject. In language classes, where exposure to the language is critical and often difficult to obtain, this method can serve as a means to let students interact with the language as much as possible. However, listening to a teacher in person and watching a video of a lesson is not quite the same for most people so there is a risk of students not understanding the core subjects. In the Flipped Approach, a teacher can choose from a variety of options to make students learn the subject at home. One of those options is to record a video of them teaching the subject thems...