Instructor Adaptations
How do you think you would have to adapt as an instructor to be successful in a flipped classroom?
My area of focus would be on the prerecorded lectures. I don't feel this would be my strength at first. In my face to face lectures I constantly engage the students, so I would have to adapt to recorded lectures.
Slowly. First develop a 15 minute video and then discuss. Maybe do 1-3 during the course and not for each class session
I understand the power of a flipped classroom and there will be a large learning curve for me due to the fact that i was trained as a traditional face to face teacher. My biggest worry when first learning this is that I would have to do a complete 180 but now learned that a complete overhaul isnt the case
Yes, I agree being tech savvy is an added bonus but I think that not all my students are tech savvy either so I will have to ensure that I have work around plans to overcome this for my older non-traditional students.
I would need to adapt as an instructor by becoming more technology oriented so that I would be able to offer the most credible resources and most relevant educational material to my students.
I would commence the course by totally and completely explaining the need for students to complete their assigned part at home because many of my students have low motivation to do much of anything at home because they have been able to slide through high school without doing much or anything whie at home. On the other hand, some have developed well academically in the past. For those it would be much easler to implement.
I believe it wouldn't be so hard as long as the student takes the response ability to do there work. I think as a person how loves to give learning minds new information and the ability to make a career for themselves the flipping class room would be a welcomed teaching strategy.
I think open-mindedness is the key to adapting to almost anything. Also, realizing that you do not need to know everything about your subject, being willing to learn new concepts, ideas or technologies will aid in adapting.
As an instructor is feel that I will have to become more computer savvy. I feel that I am behind on the use of computers due to all of the new programs.
I have been trying to flip my classes and it is difficult to take all of the lecture out of the class time.
Having worked in many lab classes the idea of watching the students interact and develop strategies outside of class, in order to be more effective in labs.
What do I need to do for me to adapt as an instructor of a flipped classroom? First would be trust in the students, I have been an educator for over 25 years, I started teaching in the US Navy and continued at a private 2 year collage. The transition from the rigged teaching styles taught to me in the Navy to becoming a college instructor has been difficult for me. College students choose to be in each class that they are talking, but it seems to me that they don’t care or don’t thing that the class is worthy of their time. The second would be trust in me that I will not slip back into the old ways of doing things. Only if we could somehow get each student to care about school like they do with Facebook and other social media sites.
Personally, not being able to see the looks on my students' faces as I'm lecturing would be an obstacle for me. I would have to get over the anxiety of whether or not they are understanding the content. I tend to "mother" them.
I think it's definitely easier for the tech savvy people to adjust to the flipped classroom but me personally I feel I will struggle with gauging understanding of students because I won't have the personal level of interaction.
I believe you would need to understand the concept of a flipped classroom and bring the same energy that's brought in the traditional classroom.
I'm cautiously yet positively moving my classes in this direction and receiving encouraging feedback from my students.
The opportunity for us instructors is to be able to adapt into this environment and find more meaningful ways to deliver our content so that the students will remain engaged outside of the classroom and the classroom time becomes the learning lab for students to probe and experiment with the guidance of the instructor.
I believe I would adapt well as longa s mu students are able to grasp the style.
In the case of information literacy instruction, best practice is to integrate BL into the curriculum of a first year course with a strong research component. As Parker, Lyn, and Freeman (2005) observed, "high impact on student's results was achieved by integration and contextualisation, when the information skills resource was firmly embedded into the course." Further, Wilson (2010) suggests that collaboration between librarians and faculty in order to integrate library information literacy resources into the class rather than as, "stand-alone module," is a strategy that leads to the resources being used more heavily by students
