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 themselves. Which is also what my latest assignment was. Me and my three other friends Abdülhamid, Berat and Mustafa made a five-minute video on the use of past continuous tense to be viewed by high school students.

Since I do not usually record myself, It was a rather challenging task for me. Although the recording was extremely brief, I found myself repeating the same lines over and over again to get a clean recording. It took some time but with enough attempts I managed to make record a video that I’m happy with. We also needed to add little quizzes for the students watching the video. There is a website that lets you add questions into your video but we could not figure out how to use it, so we had to improvise by adding quiz parts to the video itself.

 

Perhaps you also want to learn how to use the past continuous tense? If so, you can find our video, right here! God bless!