Extend and Engage

Engage and

Extend

Christina Cavage

June 2016

What does your classroom look like?

Students Needs vs. Data Driven

Integrating Technology, Building Collaboration

Flipping the ESL Classroom

Have you thought about Flipping Your Class?


What is The Flipped Classroom?

Breaking down classroom walls

Create new opportunities to learn

Microlearning


No flipped classrooms are identical…


FLIP represents the four pillars of the ideology

• Flexible Learning Environments

• Learning Culture

• Intentional Content

• Professional Educators


Flexible classroom environments

“Controlled Chaos”

Rearrangement of learning space, tailored to activity:

Group work, pair work, independent study, performance,

evaluation, research


Learning culture –a shift

‒ Instruction can take place outside of class time at each individual’s

pace

‒Class time is about…

exploring topics deeper, assessing understanding, asking questions

giving opportunities for students to apply concepts

Flipping the ESL

Classroom

-ED endings Video

Learning Content:

At home, students can watch

video

In the classroom, application

activity

http://screencast.com/t/vmJigFW3Qxrb

Classroom

Application

Activity

Another example…Count and non-count nouns


Intentional Content


What content should be taught in

the classroom?

• Communicative

• Application of structures

What content can (and should) be

taught outside of the classroom?

• Heavy cognitive load

• Structures that some learners

need repeated

Intentional Content

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LOOKS LIKE A LOT OF WORK…

Do I have to create my own videos/

audios?




• Professional Educators

• In the flipped model, teachers become more crucial

• Flipping can be more demanding in the beginning

• While less direct instruction, more planning on what to flip

• During class time, observing, giving feedback, assessing


Explore-Flip-Apply

‒ Initial class exploration (activate background

knowledge)

In class teachers introduce the lesson with a

situation

Students work together in class and explore

what they know

Students study/learn concept or language at

home through video or other media

Next class meeting, students understanding and

apply learning to situation


• EXPLORE Example

• Teacher presents situation in class: How do you make a good argument in writing?

• Students can get into groups and discuss, generate a list

• Class reviews a list



Example-Apply

Back in class students could . . .

• Generate an outline for the

writing assignment, first in

groups

• Generate topics and outlines

• Peer critique the outline



Example-Apply

Back in class students

could . . .

• Create two

conversations—one

formal and one informal

• Perform conversations


What we know about

Flipping

Flipping is blended learning

at its best...

Flexibility to layer a lesson

Flipping the ESL Classroom: Back Loading

In class…

Pre-speaking or

pre-writing work

Vocabulary work

Group discussions

Flipping the ESL Classroom:Front Loading

In class…Post-Reading Activities

• Group

activity/project

• Extend the reading

• Identify grammar

structures and their

functions


What we know about Flipping

Flipping is blended learning at its best...

Learners have increased learning opportunities


What we know

about Flipping

Flipping is blended

learning at its best...

Learners develop

greater autonomy



Flipping is blended learning at its

best...

Lower levels of Bloom’s taxonomy

are moved outside of the

classroom (understanding and

remembering) while upper levels

(analyzing, applying, evaluating

and creating) are explicitly

worked on in the classroom.


What we know about

Flipping

Flipping is blended

learning at its best...

Appeal to digital natives



Flipping is blended learning at its best...

Offers many advantages for teachers:

Bridge experiences/expectations

Stay more informed

Be better informed

Offers flexiblility

Allows us to go back to a social, cooperative

language classroom

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Flipping Your ESL Class

• Next Steps?

• Choose materials with vibrant digital tools (publisher generated with videos, audios)

• Utilize YouTube, TEDTalks, Khan Academy…

• Review helpful resources:• http://flippedlearning.org

• http://longmanhomeusa.com/blog/tag/Christina-Cavage/

http://flippedlearning.org

Flipping Your ESL Class

• Next Steps?

• Think about integrating technology rather

than using technology

Let’s hear . . .

Education

Extend and Engage