Review of Flipped Classroom Video
1. Grade 11 English Lesson Adjectives
Attention The lesson does not have an element to grab students’ attention both in terms of perceptual and inquiry arousal. Teacher’s explanation is monotone so it does not support the point of maintaining attention. Interesting graphics can also be put in the presentation to make it more appealing.
Relevance Only the subject matters are informed in the objectives. Teacher does not relate the objectives of the unit to students’ goals and needs in real life.
Confidence The objectives of the lesson do not well contribute to expectancy for success. The presentation is that ‘we are going to learn…’ It will be better to say ‘you will be able to …’ to form confidence in students at the very start.
Satisfaction Some more questions/tests should be added at the end of the lesson to provide opportunities to exercise their newly-acquired knowledge. The one given in the lesson is too little and does not quite relate to real world situation. It makes sense in view of grammar but not in daily life situation. If the teacher is going to provide more drills in class, that will be good. Somehow more questions right after the lesson will be fresher for learners to touch the meaningful element of the lesson and will be motivated for further discussion or exploration.
2.Geometry: 4-3 Congruent Triangles
Attention The video clearly shows visual representations of congruent triangles. The pen tool accompanies the explanation so it is visually attractive. However, the teacher’s tone of voice is monotone, showing no variability in fact description.
Relevance The teacher does not mention previously learnt units to make connections of contents. Also, the video jumps into the content of mathematics without informing any usefulness of the lesson to students’ life.
Confidence The teacher does not express any expectations of the unit or in other words, learning goals are not informed. However, there is exercise for student to do at the end supporting opportunities for success.
Satisfaction The exercise at the end is pure mathematics. It is not related to the realistic setting. The questions do not give a sense of satisfaction to students because students do not have a chance to solve realistic problem.
3. Geometry: 4-4 Proving Triangles Congruent
Attention There are few attention-grabbing elements in the lesson namely clear visual representation of fact presentation and pen tool which helps maintain attention. Students can follow the instruction easily while the pen is moving along the explanation. Regarding the teacher’s tone of voice, it is monotone showing no variability in fact description.
RelevanceThe teacher pointed out at the end of the lesson that the contents will be used for the entire year so the contents are prerequisite to other future contents. This should have been stated at the beginning of the lesson so that students know why they have to study. It would be better if the teacher can inform the usefulness of the lesson in their future careers or real life application.
Confidence The instruction does not state learning requirements so students have no direction at the beginning about their competence to success. There is one question left for students to apply the knowledge learnt at the end of the lesson. This is an opportunity for students to show their ability and gain belief in their competence but it is too little. (I hope that there will more exercise following in the class.)
Satisfaction The lesson does not enhance satisfaction as it does not provide any opportunities for students to apply skills related to their real life. Also, students’ accomplishments are not seen in the video so satisfaction element cannot be traced.
4.History: The Black Plague
AttentionPictures of 3 critical organisms that affected the plague are presented at the beginning of the video. This can be considered an element to activate curiosity to learn more about the plague.
RelevanceThe contents of the unit show only the fact of the plague but do not have any contents showing relevance to learners’ life and importance of the information.
Confidence The video shows the outline of the instruction but does not state the expectation of the unit on students. In this case, students will not have a clear understanding of what they have to do after learning the unit so frustration to be successful or fail might occur. Meaningful tasks are not presented for learner to show their ability to gain a sense of success.
Satisfaction The meaningful application exercise is not presented in the lesson. Learners will not gain satisfaction because they do not have a chance to overcome the real-world problems. Also, students’ accomplishments are not seen in the video so satisfaction element cannot be traced.
I love how you gave a brief analysis of the videos you watched. I had some of the same views in terms of the geometry and English objectives video. I do feel that the teachers can make the videos a little more relatable or even provide opportunities for transferability.
ReplyDeleteWhile all of the content can be transferred in some way or form, this may not also be that apparent to students. This speaks to the idea of Relevance. Students are less motivated to learn things that they feel are invaluable to them.
ReplyDeleteI also love your analysis of word choice, another very important aspect of learning and instruction. You are right, tones such as "you will be able to" instead of "we are going to learn" increase student confidence levels as they gain a heightened sense of expectation for success. It is positively reinforcing them at the very start of the lesson.
I spoke about some of the concerns I had with the many of the videos in terms of monotone voices. That will surely drop the student attention level. Teachers need to be engaging! They need to be motivating! They need to stimulate their students mind. They may think that voice tone may not be all that important in the video lectures, but I argue that it is even more so! This flipped classroom model creates a distance learning environment. Additional efforts needs to taken in such instances.
Thank you, Teshera for your comments. Yes, I think there are nothing wrong with most video lectures in terms of instructional strategies. However, they need more motivational messages and elements added to it as you said. To make students learn by themselves without close supervision, we need something very appealing to them.
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