{"id":17,"date":"2011-04-18T22:28:44","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T15:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coetail.asia\/neilcommons\/?p=17"},"modified":"2017-08-31T14:33:02","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T07:33:02","slug":"reverse-learning-my-adventure-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/neilcommons.com\/?p=17","title":{"rendered":"Reverse Learning – My adventure begins"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Next academic year I will be teaching a year 12 standard level IB Physics course. \u00a0As advised by\u00a0Mr. Bennet<\/a> in his excellent informative presentations I am starting with one class and building from there. \u00a0With this class\u00a0I hope to really integrate the concepts of a flipped classroom and where I really feel it will be most beneficial for the following reasons:<\/p>\n

1) The requirement of the course itself and the impact the achieved levels have on future university acceptance provides a fairly big motivational stick.<\/p>\n

2) I believe that increasing the amount of one-to-one teacher time with these students will result in the greatest improvement of achievement (as standard level students they are often not the next Physics university majors but they have a level of interest and the additional support will be important)<\/p>\n

3)\u00a0I can see the opportunity to self pace their learning will provide a great benefit to these students.<\/p>\n

4) The course itself already has a clear structure with explicit learning objectives which I can use as the scaffolding for the course.<\/p>\n

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Some issues that I am aware of and am starting to think about solutions (comments relating to these will be warmly welcomed) but have not yet put anything in place:<\/p>\n

Misconceptions – I know that it is crucially important to challenge misconceptions (and I am mentally flagging this point) but feel this can provide fun content for class time.<\/p>\n

Monitoring – It is not going to be as simple as providing a % mark for the homework problems and a little general feedback. \u00a0This means that I will not have such a clear paper trail but I hope it means my greater involvement means that I am able to use my interaction to effectively monitor. \u00a0Plus at the end of each unit I will still set a test to cover that content.<\/p>\n

Different types of learner – Videos are not going to suit everyone so also identifying parallel sources (textbook, websites…) is something I am looking to do.<\/p>\n

Video production – I don’t feel that I need to produce every video. \u00a0I think the present online resources are great start (Khan Academy<\/a>\/\u00a0Brightstorm<\/a>\/ educator.com<\/a>). \u00a0However, I have signed up to a\u00a0vodcasting social network<\/a> and have downloaded\u00a0Jing<\/a> (although have not really done anything but get annoyed by the yellow blob over my Google Chrome tabs)<\/p>\n

Developing a positive learning environment – I recognise that I need this to be a really trusting learning environment and hope that some peer teaching\/ learning will help with this.<\/p>\n

Learning Blog – I hope to use this to get students to show synthesis of understanding (but would this lack the community feedback which helps a blog blossom?<\/p>\n

Critical thinking – I want it in my classroom<\/p>\n

Practical opportunities – Identifying both practical tasks which promote understanding of concepts and those which fit the requirements for the internal assessment aspect of the course.<\/p>\n

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