‘Flipped Classroom’– a small educational revolution

Following the implementation of ‘flipped classrooms’ at Taitung’s Taoyuan Elementary School, the children have become the main force behind the school’s educational emphasis, allowing the children to learn from asking questions. School principle Zhen Han-Wen (鄭漢文) implemented internet-based educational platforms, which allow the children to learn at their own pace through the use of game systems.

As a third grade teacher, and also part of the first wave of Junyi Academy (均一教育) teachers at Taoyuan Elementary School, Yang Yi-Wen (楊貽雯) believes she has seen a clear increase in the children’s joy of learning. With the new style of lessons, the children can’t wait for the next challenge in their Math lesson, and if there’s a question they can’t solve, small prompts on the screen together with video tutorials become the teacher. The class teacher does not provide any special guidance, instead walking amongst the students to facilitate opportunities for the children to discuss progress with one another.

Game-based teaching materials help stimulate children’s interest, whilst at the same time avoiding vicious competition or making children feel inferior. Fourth-grade teacher Lin Xing-hui (林幸慧) expressed that she is currently helping students implement their own study pace and understand their own potential; each and every student is different, and so students must learn to respect differences and avoid trying to be the same as others. 

Because the students now feel that the lessons are just like playing games, when the school bell rings, they are so focused on their studies they can’t bear to stop. Once children find their own way of learning and growing in the classroom, the teacher’s role also changes. Teacher Lin Xing-hui expressed that teachers must clearly understand what goals they want the children to achieve before designing the lesson.

Only then will children studying in a ‘Flipped Classroom’ have the interest to study; this interest helps the children feel that the studies really belong to them, and are not something they have merely learnt from a textbook. 

‘Flipped Classroom’– a small educational revolution

URL:https://www.peopo.org/news/246803

(以下是中文對照)
翻轉教室 教育小革命

在實施「翻轉教育」的台東縣桃源國小，強調學生是教育的主體，讓孩子們從發問開始學習。桃源國小由校長鄭漢文導入網路教育平台，讓學生可以在遊戲式的系統中，用自己的步調上課。擔任三年級導師，也是桃源國小首波引進均一教育的老師楊貽雯認為，明顯進步在於學生學習的樂趣增加，一到數學課，學生們就迫不及待挑戰新進度，遇到不會的題目，螢幕旁的小提示和影片教學都是解題老師，班導師反而不會特別指導，而是在座位間走動、提供機會讓進度相當的孩子互相討論。

遊戲教學容易激起孩子們的興趣，同時也要避免讓孩子陷入惡性競爭或感到自卑。四年級導師林幸慧老師表示，現在要慢慢開始讓班上的同學了解設定自我進度的用意，要開始認知自己的能力可以到哪裡；每一個人的確不同，要學會尊重同學的不同，不是去計較一定要齊頭式的平等。

下課鐘響，學生們仍專注在課程中，因為對他們來說，上課就像在玩遊戲，常常下了課還意猶未盡。當學生在教室裡找到了自我學習與成長的方式，老師的角色也有所改變。老師楊貽雯表示，老師要很清楚的知道，要孩子達到什麼目標，然後才設計課程。因為這樣的翻轉，他才會有興趣去學習；他會覺得這個學習是他的事，不是課本教他的，是他自己有興趣的。