Teacher Education / Professional Development Workshop (80 mins)
Online Flipped Learning Approach for Improving Communicative Competence, Collaboration and Student Engagement
This workshop presents Helaine Marshal’s (2017) Synchronous Online Flipped Learning Approach (SOFLA), developed specifically for online and hybrid classes. The presenters have adapted the SOFLA framework in Online F2F school and hybrid college curriculums and online Business Managers’ Courses. SOFLA has been beneficial in improving student autonomy, participation, and independent communication. The workshop will first discuss what kind of activities should be moved out of class and what should be practised during class to maximize comprehension, retention, collaboration, and communicative competence. Participants will then be encouraged to share their curriculum limitations and discuss solutions. Finally, examples of using technology to monitor student participation and interaction covertly and provide formative assessment are presented. This workshop demonstrates the benefits of the SOFLA framework, how lesson time can be more effectively used for communication and how the roles of teachers and students change throughout the SOFLA process.
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Daniel is a teacher/researcher specializing in Word-formation in psycholinguistics and studying the neurocognitive processes that form healthy learners, memories, and fluent recall. The study and treatment of fluent recall in early child development and youth and adult disfunction in English as an additional language is his specialty. Daniel is an award winning writer and presenter.
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Marina Goto is an educator, English examiner, and content creator at an ed-tech company in Japan. She has received her Master's Degree in TESOL from Temple University in Japan. Her research interests include Task-based Langauge Teaching, phonics, material development, and the integration of technology into English classrooms in Japan.