Working With a Flipped Classroom Lesson
The Lesson:
This flipped classroom lesson walks students
through the process of writing a story in a sentence. The students are
responsible for viewing the lecture at home on their own time and reading
through the links provided. Once complete students should be prepared to come
to class and work through the writing process. In class students should work on
writing a rough draft of a long story and then work on summary of each
sentence. As students complete the summary of the paragraph, they will have a
list of the subjects involved in the sentence, verbs used and objects acted
upon. Before breaking the story down students should look for any modifiers,
adjectives etc. that they may want to include and write them down. Now students
will have all of the necessary parts needed to write the sentence conveying a
story and should work on making their own story long sentence.
Looking Back:
The lesson objectives were achieved easily and having
an assessment before writing the sentence made this possible. After my students
completed the assessment I was able to verify what parts of the lesson were not
understood and make sure that all of the students were comfortable with the
concepts to be used in the lesson. After checking in with the students the
writing process could begin. As students started writing, I was able to assist
with the brainstorming and flushing out ideas. This allowed for a lot more one
on one contact with students which I would not have been able to do if I was
focused on the lesson in general or if this part of the writing process had to
be done at home. As for the summary process this was the same. Students were
able to ask for assistance on finding the right words to make a summary and get
assistance from the instructor. Finally the whole sentence could come together
and I was there as the instructor to help guide questions about the writing
process and assist with more complex punctuation as needed.
In the future it would be nice to include the links
within the presentation to make sure that students actually look at the links
provided. This would allow for the quiz assessment to have a better inclusion
of what was offered in the links. This would be a bit more challenging to do
via Power Point so using a Smart Board would be a better option for this which
would allow for more hands on instruction with the whole process.
