My picture book for flipped lesson

My Storybird link

Mary's one fine day

            I made short picture story in Storybird. As they provided nice drawings, teachers can make their own teaching materials especially based on reading. My story is about the day of mole mom Mary and her two sons. I refer to Michigan English Language Proficiency Standards for K-12 schools, especially R.5.2.c restate fact and details of fact.

             Making this story, I tried to put useful expressions frequently used in daily life. The target students are from pre-school students to elementary third graders. As my target students are young, I focused on their ability to restate the fact and details. Through making their own story, students can use the words and expressions I used in this material. 

            Students will be able to make their own story with very short sentences and beautiful drawings. They can review what they have learned through the lesson. I will give them an reading quiz to ask them what they have read in this story.

My first photo story for flipped lesson

My Animoto link

Sports and activities

         I made the photo story about English words related to sports and activities. Through this photo story, my students will be able to learn the phrases about sports more interestingly. I refer to Michigan English Language Proficiency Standards for K-12 schools, especially S.1.1.a Use learned phrases to respond to questions and directions. 

      Using photo and music, students will be more likely to get involved in my lesson. After learning phrases related to sports and activities, student will be able to use these expressions in their speaking activity. During speaking activity, they can demonstrate what they have learned in my photo story lesson.

      They will get their own assignment as well, which is supposed to put their own pictures. In the assignment, students will find some words related to the pictures they choose and learn them. Then, I will give them oral test to check whether they have learned through their photo story assignment. 

My learning objective and how to check it from TED-ED

My TED-ED link:

Erin McKean: Go ahead, make up new words!

My language learning objective is based on Michigan English Language Proficiency Standards for K-12 schools, especially L.3 Identify main ideas and supporting details from spoken English.

In this talk, Erin Mckean who is an lexicographer, explains the diversity of new words and the benefit of making up new words. She encourages us to make up our own new words to express our ideas and get our meaning across.

To see if the objectives had been met, I make two multiple choice questions for main idea and details of the talk.

1. What is the main idea of this talk?

(A) making up new words

(B) finding the history of new words

(C) learning how to use dictionary

2. What is not included in the ways to make up new words?

(A) compounding

(B) stealing

(C) deleting

And to enlarge our students thought, I also made an open-ended type question.

3. Why does the speaker encourage us to make up new words?

The review of "Flipping Your EL Classroom: A Primer" written by John Graney

I would like to review the article named Flipping Your EL Classroom: A Primer written by John Graney. Teachers are bound to be frustrated when the teaching material or instruction they prepared do not work well. The author of this article suggests that teachers bring students assignment into the ‘flipped’ classroom and their instruction parts move out of the classroom to help learners engage in more cognitively demanding activities with the teacher present. The frustrated student, the confused learner, the student in danger of tuning out gets attention and support when they need it (Bergmann & Sams, 2012). Like all good homework assignments, these activities still challenge students to use what they have learned. 

The author of this article argues that teachers can break a flipped classroom lesson into three parts: work at home, work in class, work after class. In exemplified lesson, it is intriguing that teachers insert a quiz into the video which students are supposed to watch at home. Then the teacher sets up activities and prepare some needed materials.

According to the author, what happens in the flipped classroom revolves around the learners' needs. The activities help learners elicit the misunderstandings and take the students deeper into the subject. In addition, the author refer that by moving instruction outside of class, learners gain control over their learning. Students who cannot follow or understand the teacher’s instruction are able to review again and again until they understand well. They can use Internet and freely find more required information.

As video are closely related to the flipped classroom, the author also introduces some way of choosing video materials for class. First of all, as the flipped classroom becomes more popular, better instructional videos should become available, such as finding an Existing Video in YouTube or TED-ED. Creating a Video also can be a good way to use video material for class. With regard to other nonvideo Options, the author advises that the videos are the important part of flipping, but teachers can use a variety of resources for the initial exploration of a topic.

In conclusion, teachers can encourage their learners find their answer, changing the methods of teaching, so-called ‘in flipped classroom’. And they are also responsible for explaining the instructions well and making their learners get involved to their class.