FLIPPED TRAINING MODEL FOR TEACHERS
A TRAINING TEACHERS COURSE BY FLIPPED MODELNicolin Catalina,
RMEPFA, Calea Grivitei 120, sector 1, Bucharest, Romania
[email protected] Abstract:
The emergence of new devices in education, has created new
paradigms for teaching, learning and training. Even if the Flipped
Classroom is not used in Romania, is the time to make a change in
the training structures and models, and promote an innovative frame
for training using Flipped Classroom model.Keywords: Flipped
Teaching, Training, tablets, Web 2.0, tutoring
The emergence of new tools in education generated a large
movement in educational environments. The facility that you can
have everything you need with you anywhere and anytime accessible
to tablets and smart phones has made to be implemented rapidly in
education. Until the advent of these new tools very useful indeed,
education was very well served by the old laptops, PCs or iPhones.
The Series of Web 2.0 tools successfully met a lot of functions and
helps educational act in its entirety. Switching from Windows to
Android and iOS has generated teacher's great difficulties. Both
students and teachers, users of digital phones, not felt a great
difficulty using the interface, or editing. The first problem that
has been and is also the key to the whole Android or iOS
architecture is the search engine. users of old search engines like
Mozilla or Opera gave up and took Google Chrome. For the iPad the
adaptation to Safari is a little more difficult. I have noticed in
all guidance about the use of tablets for educational purposes an
elementary thing is missing: compulsory knowledge of the functions
and components of a tablet, load module and its operations. In
other range, how to connect to the Internet, how to use the tablet
online and offline, using the camera, and file transfers through
Bluetooth.
Another big question that arises is that there is an avalanche
of applications. When teachers teach, using a set, students when
they learn or do home works use another set. I've never seen, some
tablet tutorials for educational purposes prior to use the device.
Before beginning to use a tablet at school and home all students
must learn to use Google Chrome and Gmail. 1.The elements that
occur in the educational use of a tablet : Mediums where you could
use a tablet for train, teach, answer, tutor, explain, read, assess
are: in nature, on plane, in train, in a hotel, in an internet
point, in a museum, in classroom, at shopping, at sport
competitions, in a bus station, in classroom, at home, in park, at
a coffee shop, in a club, or when you are with friends.This means
mobility and accessibility of your professional skills, and
permanent connection with your tutees.
Figure 1 Mediums
The device Tablet or Smartphone is the facilitator of your
interactions, it contains all soft and applications you need to
perform from everywhere your role.
Figure 2 - ACTOR 1 The TABLET
You, as Teacher, or student, your students as tutees, are actors
of theses interactions in places and with resources pre
established. This means that your students and you have same skills
and knowledge and use the same tools. It is about your personal
style of teaching and your preferred tools for teaching. There are
a lot, you and your classrooms, use some specific, verified and
considered able to perform a good teaching.
Figure 3 - Actor 2, 3 - Teacher, Student
Teachers roles in using Tablets in teaching are : Painter,
Redactor, Scenarist, Reviser, Operator,Estetician, Writer
,Technician ,Reporter Teachers Actions in performing teaching
through Tablet, in different structures of courses, and Flipped
Classroom too ::Selects Appropriate apps and texts for use with
apps selected, Manages, Transfers, Evaluates,Facilitates- The
transfer of competencies and the easy move of teachers from one
level to other, Fixates, Variates -Apps , mediums, web uses,
Creates - All materials created must respect the contents and needs
of students, Reflects, Connects community, Follows progresses,
Corrects errors, Exemplifies Show how to use, Cooperates, Helps
technical, Auto-trains Provides training, Mentors Tutors, Mediates,
InnovatesBefore you perform teaching with Tablets, you must
establish with your students, which apps you will use in teaching
and which apps they will use for learning and do home works. This
aspect means some training hours, for teaching students how to
search, to select, to download and to use apps from Google
Play.
Figure 4 - Actor 4 Play Store Google
The Apps Specificities: utile, to create, to communicate, to
expose, to entertain, to explain, for telling a story, for resumed,
for structure, for assessing, for training,and.Before the advent of
Tablets in teaching we all had pc or laptop and we usually edit
texts and make presentations with Word and PowerPoint, programs
from Microsoft Office. Because every big trademark has realized his
own Tablet, they have specified a personal browser, a personal OS
and also a personal Office programs. For Android one of them is
Polaris Office 5. Students and teachers are not skilled to use it,
one cause of the tactile screen of the Tablet and another cause,
because has a lot of multiple facilities that must be learned
before using it. This means some hours before using teaching with
Tablet, for having skilled students in using Office tools in
learning.
Figure 5 - Actor 5 the Intruder
Educating students and especially teachers in the use of these
new forms of Office with various capabilities, brings plus the
educational, and the value of the work of student learning.
2. Flipped Classroom, and Web 2.0, the connectors of all actors
in learning
On a larger scale is used the concept of the Flipped Classroom.
This new concept which is based on individual work, epistemic
curiosity, and the ability to assimilate new knowledge through
collective learning hopes to resolve dropouts and to make learn all
students.From years ago I use Facebook as online learning tool.My
accounts have also contents for study easily in Flipped
Classroom
Figure 6 Print screen of a selection about History of French
Language resources from Facebook account.It is very important to
have resources accessible, for facilitating the students
learning.
But not only the resources are very important, also the tutoring
proceedings.
Long time ago, I have published a book about Tutoring
on-line.
I have discovered that is very actual also on this time in the
process of Flipped Learning.
It is not so important to use only apps in the teaching
process.
There are tools of Web 2.0 who could be used in teaching and
training with great results. And they could be viewed also on
tablets.
For increasing the attractivity of a course, you can use
Facebook or Storify and compose your course content. Then you can
upload it on an Edmodo Classroom as I do myself.
https://storify.com/catalinanicolin/utilesThis link and many
other courses about ICT, are all in my online course on Edmodo
Figure 7 Printscreen from the training classroom on Edmodo with
ICT contents3. Continuous training for teachers using the Flipped
Classroom modelStarting from teaching by using Flipped Classroom,
the training is also a Flipped Context. Teachers training is a very
important aspect in CPD of teachers everywhere. Why not use Flipped
Training in this case?I have thanked my training content in 5
modules for 5 weeks:
On Week 1 ( course on-line with tutors and trainers) about
Operating a tablet the trainees learn the components of a tablet
and accessories/ recharge/functions/operating a tablet external;
the internal components of a tablet: desktop/touch
screen/buttons/operating icons/; how to set up the Internet
connection to wireless; how to open Google Play Store, and how to :
search/download/delete apps; how to use Polaris Office, the Browser
Chrome and Gmail; how to transfer docs with Bluetooth and how to
use camera for photo and movies and sounds.Along Week 2 (course
face2face with tutors and trainers) teachers will learn about
Flipped Classroom paradigm
A. Flipped Training Model comprehension, A1. the Flipped
teaching concept, A2. Flipped teaching structure, A2.1 Tools, A3.
Methods, activities, contents, structure, A3.1 Tutorials, A4. How
knows trainer that training has effect?, A5. Tutoring in Flipped
teaching and training, A5.1 Communication (tools, techniques)
B. Psychological aspects of Flipped teaching/training, B1.
Students behaviors, actions, B2. Learning styles, teaching styles,
MI
C. Simulations :C1. Teaching, C2. Training, C3. TutoringWeek 3
means Individual learning
A. Tutors present the objectives of study, the final results
expected, the content of works, the time for study and offer
tutorials for tools used in training and learning by trainees.B.
Tutors present the materials for study and offer explanations about
notes, questions and enrichments of learning(Every student will
present his own nuggets from readings and his own interpretation
and exemplification extensions, Short summaries, Extended
summaries, Key ideas and links commenting ideas, Questions about
contents, discussion points, ramifications)At Week 4 trainees work
at Didactical applications using Google Classroom app, Edmodo,
Storify, Symbaloo, Mindmap, Padlet , Trello or Prezi every trainee
applies things learned on various learning contexts and
contents:introductive lesson, consolidation lesson, reviewing
lesson, assessment test lesson, online lesson, flipped lesson,
tutoring lesson, training lessonLast Week the 5th will be dedicated
to the Presential training and will be based on: Trainees questions
, Trainers comments, common activities and full learning on:
contents of teaching subject, methodic of subject teached, ICT
applications in teaching3. m-Tutoring ActivityThe activities of
Flipped Teaching consist when learning is online, a tutoring
activity realized by the teacher. Because we had mention the tutors
in case of Flipped Training, I specify that the Tutor activity as
example will be based on different aspects in tutoring the trainees
on1. How to read, make notes and enrich the study materials
2. How to make fiches avec notices and ideas about the readed
materials
3. How to communicate with your tutor/prof
4. How to make annotations on materials on Android
5. How to realize the materials6. How to resolve the Web
quest
Tutors sites on weebly will contain as a must:
1. A short resume, a photo, all social contacts: Facebook,
Twitter, G+( Gmail, Hangouts, Edmodo,Youtube,) etc
2. Tutorials about: How to install an app and how to make it
run
How to select which parts of an app is useful for a lesson
How to make a video in MSMovieMaker and publish it on YouTube
How to use Edmodo
Tutor site : Edmodo Training model - tutorial for trainees.
Figure 8 - Training Teachers of French in Flipped Classroom
(link) How to use Simbaloo
How to use Trello How to use Padlet
How to use Lesson Planner
How to use MindMap
As a conclusion, the Flipped Learning Model and the Flipping
Tutor Activity are the most important facts, and the keys of a
complete training in the Tablet Era. When all apps will be created,
we will have the possibility to train using only apps.
