The foreign language flip class stages. Part 1

 

Looking back at the flipping and blending I have done in my Spanish class and refleflip foreign language classcting on the process, I thought it would make things easier if you have a set of stages that you can follow to work on your flipped classes and to organize and pace yourselves more accurately. I know some will be using the summer to work on planning next year’s flipped class, so I hope this helps….Here it goes… The process of flipping a class consists primarily of four “stages”:

  1. The Harvesting Stage.
  2. The Washing, peeling, chopping Stage.
  3. The Let’s get cooking Stage.
  4. The Digesting Stage.

Emilia’s foreign language flip class stages

foreign language flip blend class stagesTaking it one stage at a time, let’s start with the “Harvesting Stage”

The Harvesting Stage is where you will CYOFF (Create Your Own Flip Formula), which we already talked about in the post Behold the Foreign Language Class Formula. On this preliminary stage this is what should be done:

  • Ingredients:
    • Flip class articles, blogs, videos, webinars, examples, tutorials, ideas. The book written by Jon Bergman and Aaron Sams (flipping “gurus”) is now available as well: Flip Your Classroom
  • Procedure:
  • Research, research, research: as mentioned on the CYOFF post, the very first thing you should do is research. It is important to get your ideas straight and to fully understand the approaches. Why teachers are doing it? What are the benefits? What are the challenges? Don’t forget I posted all my research resources on the

5 thoughts on “The foreign language flip class stages. Part 1

  1. Hola, Emilia! Thanks so much for sharing your reflection on the flipping/blending process. Your blog will be a very useful guide for foreign language teachers who are exploring and/or considering flipping components of their instruction. I am still harvesting and can’t wait to read your ideas and suggestions for the “Washing, peeling, chopping Stage”. Merci!

    • Hola Karima! I am really happy to hear that the blog is being useful. Please let me know if you have any specific thoughts, questions, ideas that you’d like to share here throughout your flipping process. Can’t wait to collaborate on the next stage! Gracias a ti!

  2. Hola Emilia,
    I teach Spanish 2-3 and would like to flip my class. I tried to install Camstudio in order to turn my pp presentations into videos, but I’m having problems making Camstudio work. I know there is a program where you can convert pp into videos, narrate them and include yourself in a small window/picture to make it personal, but I don’t know the name of the program.I wonder if you know it? Thanks for sharing your reflections on your flipping process and for your blog.

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