630 – CTS in Flipped Classrooms

Course Description:

Flipping the classroom means that events that have traditionally taken place inside the classroom now take place outside the classroom and vice versa. Content delivery is done at home. Application, analysis and synthesis of information is done in class through activities and interactive teaching strategies.

This course aims to study the concept of flipped classroom presenting strategies to deliver flipped lessons in the most effective ways and ideas for engaging students in meaningful learning activities. Using technology to support pedagogy, participants will create lessons, and materials for students to use independently of the teacher in order to maximize the use of classroom time, as well as support differentiation and mastery learning.

 

Prerequisites:

610 CTS in Introduction to ICT in Education

 

Aims:

The course intends to give insights into:

engaging students through responsive learning environments

designing to prepare and motivate them to confidently undertake assessment tasks

embedding interactivity and feedback loops strategically at all stages of learning

 

Requirements for a Certificate:

Minimum attendance requirement is 75% of course events.

Assessed portfolio work for practical tasks like group and individual planning, observation, demonstration, micro-teaching, discussion and feedback sessions.

1000-word end of course Reflective Essay.

 

Details:

The course introduces flipped learning as a pedagogical approach in which the conventional notion of classroom-based learning is inverted, so that students are introduced to the learning material before class, with classroom time then being used to deepen understanding through discussion with peers and problem-solving activities facilitated by teachers.

 

Course Outline:

630.01 – Individual learning space and Distance learning

630.02 – Flipped Classrooms and variation

630.03 – Teachers’ Role as a Coach and Facilitator

630.04 – Methods appropriate for your new teaching role

630.05 – Developing a flipped classroom concept for your own teaching

630.06 – Course Design: Planning and Implementation

630.07 – In-class Activities, Online Activities and Assessment

630.08 – Interactive problem-solving sequences

630.09 – Aligning learning objectives, learning activities and assessment

630.10 – Using methods which actively engage students in learning

630.11 – Piloting, Reviewing and Continual feedback

630.12 – Strategies to meet particular challenges