Session 12 Reflection

Flipped Classroom

Thanks to the guess speaker, Ms Zoe, who shared her lately teaching experience with our class. It was inspiring and motivating to the front-line teachers. I am really impressed by her three flipped lessons co-planned with Dr Paul Sze. I could tell that it is worthwhile dedicating days and nights on designing the flipped lessons. It is because the well-planned flipped lessons can help students learn English more effectively, they first studied the basic theories at home, and then they can just focus on the practice of the target objectives in the lessons; teachers can fully make good use of the time in the lesson to drill the students.  I want to become a more passionate English teacher and create an "enjoyable" flipped classroom  for my students in the up-coming term as well.


Nearpod - live lesson


I haven't experienced any "live lesson" before studying this course. I was amazed that the live lesson created by Nearpod can be composed of different kinds of teaching materials including PowerPoint shows, images and PDF files. On top of these functions of presentation, a live lesson also allows teachers to implement instant activities such as the poll, blank filling, picture drawing, etc., Rather than the printed quizzes, I believe my students will be more interested and excited when doing the quizzes on the tablets.  In fact, what teachers need to do is just to transfer the lesson plan to a Nearpod live lesson, which is more appealing and motivating;  Luckily, in my workplace, teachers are allowed to use the tablets and implement CALL lessons when needed, I want to create live lessons in the future even the application is not free of charge. I will pay for the premium version since I would like to enhance the interactivity with my students and cater learning diversities in my lessons. I strongly suggest that English teachers can hold more live lessons to make the boring Grammar lesson "alive" and "distinctive .