Flip your classroom

The concepts of flipped classroom seem totally opposite from the traditional classroom practice. After reading articles about flipped classroom, I think flipped classroom creates a more student-centered learning environment and, therefore, students will feel more motivated to learn comparing to  the traditional teaching and learning approaches. 

Flipping Your EL Classroom: A Primer provides insights on how flipped classroom works. Flipped classroom moves instruction outside the classroom. In other words, students access content knowledge outside of the classroom. After students access those content knowledge, they interact with their teachers and peers for deeper comprehensive input. The role of teaches is not just to instruct content knowledge to students but to scaffold students' learning when they need help. 

Another article named Three Reasons To Flip Your classroom focuses on benefits of flipped classroom and how flipped classroom can benefit students' learning. After reading this article, I find flipped classroom provides more opportunities for students to take control of their learning. Moreover, through in-class interaction with their peers, students can clarify their misunderstanding on the concepts due to the fact that their peers can use the similar "ways of talks" while explaining, applying, and creating the new knowledge. Peer interaction can make the complex concepts more understandable, and teachers can check for students' understanding in in-class interaction. 

To conclude, flipped classroom definitely motivates students' learning; allows students to learn on their own pace; enables students to practice their use of language in meaningful communication. I believe flipped classroom provides a new effective way for students' learning.