At the end of last school year, I did some dabbling into flipping my classes. I really like the premise behind flipping and feel that it is a good fit for me and my Spanish classroom. I want to focus more of my face to face (f2f) time on meaningful activities that build the students interpersonal, interpretive and presentational skills in reading, speaking. listening and writing. With that said, I believe that by flipping I can take the grammar instruction out of the f2f time and use videos to present them. This will allow me work with the students communication skills.
To help prepare myself for flipping, I watched Heather Witten's webinar via Sophia on Flipped for Fluency. She gave some great examples and had some fantastic questions on how she went about flipping her class. This webinar gave me a focused look on how I want to go about setting up my class.
My focus is set. I am started with what I want the students to know by the end of the year. I then am breaking down my grammar points to use at various points in the year. I am grouping this based on themes so that the units are focused and I can tie those into cultural related topics. I will be giving 2 check in assessments to see how students are progressing before students create a unit proficiency assessment. This assessment will have a focus, but students will get to choose their own way to present their proficiency.
Along with flipping, I am wanting to try some PBL and as much tech use as possible. I even think that students will be blogging in Spanish this year to improve their writing. For speaking formative assessments, I am going to be using google voice for students to call and leave a message that will show their comprehension of the questions and their speaking abilities.
I am excited about this journey with flipping this year and cannot wait to get started. I know that the students will need to change their thought process for my class, but once they see how effective taking control of their own learning will be they will buy into it!
I will keep you all updated on how the journey is going once I start getting units planned and the school year begins.
No comments:
Post a Comment