Let's be honest, we express ourselves online constantly. We live-tweet March Madness. We Insta-story our workouts and boomerang squat thrusts. We FaceTime with Grandma every Sunday. (What, you don't? She misses you!)
We also teach dozens, if not hundreds of English students a month.
But combining the two? Teaching English...online? Suddenly, we TURN INTO Grandma:
We know that flipped learning is great for the student. But what about the teacher? The key to making flipped learning easy and profitable for you is to have a system.
After you create a great audio exercise or a killer deck of vocabulary flash cards, or you find the perfect youtube video, where do you keep it so you can send it again and again and again? Seems an obvious question, but really, where? How do you know what to send to whom and when?
This is my favorite flipped learning method because I've been a flash card learner all my life. When I first started teaching, I recommended that my students make flash cards of the words we learned. I even made PDF print outs of the those cards and distributed them after class. Not flipped! What good was it for my students to study the vocabulary after the lesson, when my goal was for them to use the vocabulary during the lesson?
