Today’s presentation is about the flipped classroom which presented by Shakirah. This is the first time I heard about the flipped classroom, it is a completely new idea to me. In the flipped classroom, students are given some learning materials such like videos, handouts to learn at home before they come to the lesson, this is a very good idea especially to me in teaching a science subject. I am teaching form 4 chemistry, every year, I will encounter a problem on finishing the syllabus on time before the students have the year end examination, due to the long syllabus and lots of experiment I need to cover within the 4 periods time in a week, I have to teach very fast and most of the time the students were not understand about the content I taught.With the idea of flipped classroom, I think the students can understand better the lesson if they watch the videos before they come to class and if they do not understand about anything, they can repeat the video until they really get the idea presented by the video. This is good to the slow learner too, they can learn on their pace that is comfortable for them.
Every thing has pro and con, the con here is if the students are lazy to watch the videos at home before they come to class, their learning outcome would be worse than in the normal class, this is because the teacher would teach in a way that he/she assumed everyone has watched the video at home, so end up these students would be left out in the class. Another thing is the students would not really pay attention to the lesson because they think that what they have to learn has already given by the teacher and they can learn on themselves without teacher. Although flipped classroom is a good idea, but if we want to implement it in our class, we should plan our instruction carefully so that the students would not miss use the teacher’s purpose.
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