Top up your teaching skills - Flipping the classroom

You may have heard the expression ‘the Flipped Classroom’ recently and be wondering what it’s all about. In this webinar, we will look at what the basic idea of the Flipped Classroom is (short answer: using technology to teach students outside the classroom, leaving more time for practice inside the classroom) and where the idea came from. Then we will examine one way of adapting the idea in English Language Teaching, using the example of the Flipped Classroom grammar videos in Gateway 2nd Edition.  For those interested in making their own Flipped Classroom videos, there will be some basic advice about things to think about, plus suggestions for further reading and research.

After studying languages at Oxford University, David Spencer trained to be a Secondary School teacher. He then moved to Spain where he has been living and teaching ever since. He continues to teach teenage students every day in a school near Madrid. Apart from teaching and training teachers, Dave began writing Secondary courses for Macmillan in 1994. His latest series is ‘Gateway 2nd Edition’, a 7-level course designed to prepare teenage students for school-leaving exams and for life after school. Dave has given talks to teachers in over 28 countries and is active on social media at www.facebook.com/macmillangateway .