flipping advanced grammar

Flipping

Advanced

Grammar

Sections taught by Anne Agard at

Laney College

Fall 2008-Fall 2013

The O

ld S

yste

m:

Students read a text

that demonstrates a grammar point.

The teacher explains the grammar point in class.

The students do some exercises in

class to show that they get it.

The teacher plans some more interesting class

activities, but often runs out of time.

The teacher assigns some homework.

Maybe they do it.

The teacher gives a writing assignment that incorporates

the target structure.

The results are disappointing.

The teacher marks up the papers, and the second drafts are better.

The Flip

ped

Syste

m

Students work at

home on a Moodle

site.

They:

Read and listen

to the text.

Watch short YouTube

videos of the teacher

explaining the grammar.

Do online

exercises.

Participate in

online forums.

Email the teacher if

they have a problem.

It t

ake

s a le

ast

as

much

tim

e a

s th

ey

spend in

cla

ss.

(At first, they complain.)

Now they go

to class.

The teacher answers

questions about the

homework.

Then they do the fun

activities that the teacher

didn’t use to have time for.

They receive a writing

prompt that requires use

of the target structure.

They do some

freewriting on the

topic in class.

They discuss the

writing prompt in

small groups.

They finish the

writing assignment with

the instructor as resource.

The first drafts are

pretty good! The

teacher grades

them the first time!

Some preliminary

data, for what it’s

worth:

Outc

om

es

for

Tradit

ional

Cla

sses:

Ave

rage fo

r Thre

e S

em

est

ers

WDN/D/F/NP

C/P B A0

0.05

0.1

0.15

0.2

0.25

0.3

0.35

Com

pari

ng F

inal

Gra

des:

Tr

adit

ional

Cla

sses

wit

h t

he S

pri

ng

2013 F

lipped C

lass

WDN/D/F/NP

C/P B A0

0.05

0.1

0.15

0.2

0.25

0.3

0.35

Com

pari

ng F

inal

Exa

m G

rades

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