english language teacher of the future

Hi there, Today, I am here to inform you of something beyond tratidional grammar teaching. What is that? Actually, you are familiar to that. It is all about flipping your class. In my last post, I mentioned about flipped vocabulary teaching video. Today, I will talk about flipped grammar teaching videos. Grammar teaching is what we want to do implicitly. Instead of spending time to lecture a grammatical structure during the class time, filming a video that our can watch at home or somewhere else apart from the classroom is a beneficial way.  For the grammar teaching video, I worked with Ayşe and Hazal as I did in my last project. As our target audience is not young learners, creating the video was easier than creating our vocabulary video. We chose to teach "obligation and prohibition (have to, must)". I loved it.  We used "Animaker" for creating our video. As we are more experienced now, creating the video lasted less time than our first try which is flipped voca...

 Hello, Have you ever tried flipping your class? If no, it is time to make it happen. Why? Because; Through flipping the classroom, you will go beyond the traditional class system. instead of lecturing hours and hours at school, you will have time to apply student- centered tasks during the class hours. You can create lecture videos and share them on Edmodo so that your students can watch the videos whenever they want before the class time. Firstly, we (with my partners are Ayşe and Hazal ) created a vocabulary teaching video for young learners. Our target audience was the fifth graders. So, we chose a unit in their course book. The unit chosen by us was "Animal Shelter" but the animals, such as elephant, monkey,and etc) presented there were not proper to the unit's name. Our teacher wanted us to stick to the course book that's why we gave place to the each animal in the unit when we were preparing our 1st draft. During the feedback session, our teacher sa...