“Flipped classroom” – the future of modern teaching

Vitanova-Ringaceva, Ana and Kuzmanovska, Dragana and Koceva, Vesna and Ivanova, Biljana and Kirova, Snezana (2023) “Flipped classroom” – the future of modern teaching. IATED Academy. ISSN 2340-1117

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Abstract

Traditional teaching in higher education implies the image of an active teacher, and a student as passive
listener. Such arrangement of the main stakeholders of the educational process implies the application
of outdated teaching methods, and, as a consequence, reduced motivation for learning, defocusing and
concentration problems during lessons appear. The objectives of modern teaching are clear and
obvious: creating a healthy and inspiring learning environment, encouraging independent learning skills,
producing students ready for vertical thinking, motivating teaching staff who will convey the contents in
a way adapted to the principles of modern teaching. Modern teaching implies the application of modern
interactive methods and techniques of work, with the direct involvement of students not as passive
listeners and recipients of ready-made information, but as creators of the teaching process. To achieve
that, it is also necessary to use the modern technological means that have become part of online
teaching. The use of new technologies is particularly significant when the "flipped classroom" method is
applied, in which students have access to the audio-visual content that is used in the performance of
the tasks given by the teacher. In fact, the teacher prepares, or directs the student to virtual sources of
knowledge, which represent a kind of a learning resource. Namely, the "flipped classroom" itself is the
opposite of traditional teaching. Students are given tasks to research the topic that will be the focus of
the following lectures. In the meantime, the teacher prepares appropriate challenges, a kind of
homework that students prepare before the realization of the lesson during which the professor is to
familiarize them with the appropriate teaching content. Such an approach puts students in a proactive
position to be direct participants in the process of designing the lesson and to be able to lead it.
We have conducted thorough research within the teaching process in which we included students
studying philological sciences, in order to perceive the functionality of the "flipped classroom" method in
higher education. The research included students and professors from the following Departments:
Macedonian Language and Literature, English Language and Literature, Italian Language and Literature
and German Language and Literature. In the first part of the research, we conducted an electronic
survey among students to get information about whether they have any knowledge about the "flipped
classroom" method and whether they were part of the teaching in which it was applied. The second part
of the research consisted of workshops in which the team of teachers properly introduced the students
to the "flipped classroom" method, which actually represented a preparation for the third phase of the
research in which they had to apply this method to the teaching unit Phraseologisms in the language
that they study. The goal of our research is to guide students to think in the direction of using the modern
teaching methods current worldwide. The obtained results, as well as the research strategies, will be
attached in schematic representations and tables.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	flipped classroom, students, contemporary teaching, higher education.
Subjects:	Humanities > Languages and literature
Divisions:	Faculty of Philology
Depositing User:	Dragana Kuzmanovska
Date Deposited:	18 Sep 2023 09:51
Last Modified:	12 Dec 2023 12:37
URI:	https://eprints.ugd.edu.mk/id/eprint/32210

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