Sunday, December 07, 2014
VIRTUAL learning now makes the grade at Stella Maris Preparatory School with the introduction of the EduFocal's Flipped Classroom Project sponsored by First Global Bank. This pilot will alter classroom engagement among 67 grade six students and teachers. The experiment is a push towards student-centred learning and is currently focused on teaching mathematics.
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| Sixty-seven grade six students from Stella Maris Preparatory are now engaged in a new student-centred approach to learning mathematics. |
The flipped classroom is an inverted educational structure in which the lecture portion of the class becomes homework. Students will watch videos produced by EduFocal, a social learning website, and read textbooks. After students watch the videos or read the text, they will take notes. When they go to class the next day they will briefly discuss what they heard in the videos and ask questions. The rest of the class time will be used to practise the concepts from the video and do activities intended to enrich the curriculum.
"By moving the direct teaching portion of the lesson to homework, it frees up more time in the classroom so teachers can act as facilitators and interact more with their students and provide more individual help, especially for struggling students," said Gordon Swaby, chief executive officer, EduFocal.
Peter Lindo, head of marketing, First Global, said they are excited about supporting innovation in the classroom through the Flipped Classroom Project and the Music: Perfect Pitch for a Sound Education programme. "Both are geared at transforming the classroom to be a more vibrant learning environment," he said. more
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