Working With a Flipped Classroom

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.

 Future lessons can be build off this which would allow for a lot more hands on instruction in the writing process. Flipping the classroom for research, writing annotated bibliographies, and even constructing a research paper would be a great resource for students. So much of writing is centered outside of the classroom when students are writing for an audience that is not present. Having the instructor there would allow for students to ask questions, bounce off ideas between one another and simply verify that they are heading in the right direction when writing.