Flipping your classroom:

How to make the most of your teaching time

OUP Business English Online Conference

Angela Buckingham
Learning outcomes
By the end of this webinar we will have:

• Explored what Flipped Learning means (and for

ELT in particular)
• Examined some of the benefits around
adopting a flipped approach
• Considered some of the challenges for our
Teaching & Learning context and identified
ways to overcome them
• Discussed ways to get started with flipping,
using a 3-point plan
Learning outcomes
By the end of this webinar we will have:

• Explored what Flipped Learning means (and for

ELT in particular)
• Examined some of the benefits around
adopting a flipped approach
• Considered some of the challenges for our
Teaching & Learning context and identified
ways to overcome them
• Discussed ways to get started with flipping,
using a 3-point plan
Learning outcomes
By the end of this webinar we will have:

• Explored what Flipped Learning means (and for

ELT in particular)
• Examined some of the benefits around
adopting a flipped approach
• Considered some of the challenges for our
Teaching & Learning context and identified
ways to overcome them
• Discussed ways to get started with flipping,
using a 3-point plan
Learning outcomes
By the end of this webinar we will have:

• Explored what Flipped Learning means (and for

ELT in particular)
• Examined some of the benefits around
adopting a flipped approach
• Considered some of the challenges for our
Teaching & Learning context and identified
ways to overcome them
• Discussed ways to get started with flipping,
using a 3-point plan
A little bit about me..

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Pictures: Teacher’s own

And a little bit about you…
Who are you teaching at the moment?
What’s your T&L context?

• young learners
• teenagers
• monolingual groups
• multilingual groups
• large classes
• one:one classes
• business English classes
• exam classes

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Some features of a Business English class

• class size
• time of lessons
• location
• input
• materials
• goals

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Some features of a Business English class

Our pre-work and in-work students

can have professional English
needs, even at lower levels

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Time-pressed students…

…and their teachers!

The contact time we have with our students is valuable –

and therefore we need to make it count

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What is flipped learning?

School work at home,

homework at school
What is flipped learning?
“Flipped learning is a pedagogical approach in
which direct instruction moves from the group
learning space to the individual learning space,
and the resulting group space is transformed into
a dynamic, interactive learning environment
where the educator guides students as they apply
concepts and engage creatively in the subject
matter.”

- Flipped Learning Network (FLN). (2014) The Four Pillars of F-L-I-P™

What is flipped learning?
“Flipped learning is a pedagogical approach in
which direct instruction moves from the group
learning space to the individual learning space,
and the resulting group space is transformed into
a dynamic, interactive learning environment
where the educator guides students as they apply
concepts and engage creatively in the subject
matter.”

- Flipped Learning Network (FLN). (2014) The Four Pillars of F-L-I-P™

Some background to Flipping

Bloom’s taxonomy (1956); Revised version Anderson and Krathwohl (2000)

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Some background to Flipping

HOTS

Bloom’s taxonomy (1956); Revised version Anderson and Krathwohl (2000)

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Some background to Flipping
Traditional
classroom:

Students are
responsible,
homework

Teachers are
responsible,
material
introduced in
class
Bloom’s taxonomy (1956); Revised version Anderson and Krathwohl (2000)
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Some background to Flipping
Flipped After: Williams, B. (2013).
How I flipped my classroom
classroom:

Students &
teachers
together,
in class

New material
introduced to
students
outside of
class time

Bloom’s taxonomy (1956); Revised version Anderson and Krathwohl (2000)

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Some background to Flipping
Flipped
classroom:

Students gain first-exposure learning

prior to the lesson
A change in role

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What is flipped learning?
“We define the flipped classroom as an
educational technique that consists of two parts:
interactive group learning activities inside the
classroom, and direct computer-based individual
instruction outside the classroom.”

Bishop, J. L., & Verleger, M. A. (2013)

What is flipped learning?
“We define the flipped classroom as an
educational technique that consists of two parts:
interactive group learning activities inside the
classroom, and direct computer-based individual
instruction outside the classroom.”

Bishop, J. L., & Verleger, M. A. (2013)

Move from passive learning towards active learning

Picture: Teacher’s own

• Promotes independent learning, develops student
autonomy
• Increases student confidence
• Students work at their own pace and at a time to suit them
• There is an emphasis on mastery of content
• Develops desirable employability skills (e.g. team working)
• Allows differentiation
• It is teaching for the digital age!
• Promotes independent learning, develops student
autonomy
• Increases student confidence
• Students work at their own pace and at a time to suit them
• There is an emphasis on mastery of content
• Develops desirable employability skills (e.g. team working)
• Allows differentiation
• It is teaching for the digital age!
• Promotes independent learning, develops student
autonomy
• Increases student confidence
• Students work at their own pace and at a time to suit them
• There is an emphasis on mastery of content
• Develops desirable employability skills (e.g. team working)
• Allows differentiation
• It is teaching for the digital age!
• Promotes independent learning, develops student
autonomy
• Increases student confidence
• Students work at their own pace and at a time to suit them
• There is an emphasis on mastery of content
• Develops desirable employability skills (e.g. team working)
• Allows differentiation
• It is teaching for the digital age!
• Promotes independent learning, develops student
autonomy
• Increases student confidence
• Students work at their own pace and at a time to suit them
• There is an emphasis on mastery of content
• Develops desirable employability skills (e.g. team working)
• Allows differentiation
• It is teaching for the digital age!
• Promotes independent learning, develops student
autonomy
• Increases student confidence
• Students work at their own pace and at a time to suit them
• There is an emphasis on mastery of content
• Develops desirable employability skills (e.g. team working)
• Allows differentiation
• It is teaching for the digital age!
• Promotes independent learning, develops student
autonomy
• Increases student confidence
• Students work at their own pace and at a time to suit them
• There is an emphasis on mastery of content
• Develops desirable employability skills (e.g. team working)
• Allows differentiation
• It is teaching for the digital age!
Learning in the digital age

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How do we go about Flipping?
Angela’s three-point plan:

Storage
You need a place to store
your learning content

You need tools to create

Creation new content

You need to find ways to

Engagement encourage your learners to
engage with the content
Where will your flipped content sit?

Virtual Learning Environment

Blackboard
Moodle
Canvas
Edmodo
...
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Building a learning community

Learning together online

Private social network

user profile
status updates
blog/ forum
folder/ file sharing

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Where will you find the content?

Videos Your own

Podcasts created
Links
Quizzes
Blogs
& content…

Screen capture
Articles e.g. Jing,
Camtasia, Snagit
Coursebook content
Keep things manageable

Shift balance
from:
in-class work + homework
to:
pre-class work + in-class work
A moment to reflect..

What would this look like with your learners?

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A moment to reflect..

What would this look like with your learners?

Encouraging Engagement (and
thinking about the challenges…)
A new aspect of our teaching role…

Helping our students

manage choice

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Where next?

Be innovative, be pragmatic
Be evaluative
Find the right balance

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Flipping your classroom:
How to make the most of your teaching time

16th March 2018 Business English Online Conference

With Angela Buckingham (presenter)

and Shaun Wilden (moderator)
References
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Assessing: A revision of blooms taxonomy of educational objectives NY: Pearson
Bergmann, J. & Sams, A. (2012). Flip your classroom: Reach every student in
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Bergmann, J. & Sams, A. (2014). Flipped learning: Gateway to student
engagement. International Society for Technology in Education.
Bishop, J. L., & Verleger, M. A. (2013). The flipped classroom: A survey of the
research. In ASEE National Conference Proceedings, Atlanta, GA
Bloom, B. S., Engelhart, M. D., Furst, E. J., Hill, W. H. and Krathwohl, D. R. (1956).
Taxonomy of educational objectives: The classification of educational goals.
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Bloom, B. S. (1971). Mastery learning. In J. H. Block (Ed.), Mastery learning:
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Brinks Lockwood R 2014 Flip it Strategies for the EFL Classroom USA: the
University of Michigan Press
Wilden, S (2017) Mobile Learning. Oxford University Press
Williams, B. (2013). How I flipped my classroom. NNNC Conference, Norfolk, NE