Teaching through the Screen: A Student's Flipped Classroom Reflection
Bonjour à tous, et bienvenue! 🌞
For this week’s project, we worked on preparing a flipped-classroom teaching video and an ASSURE-based lesson plan focusing on the Simple Past Tense, both the verb forms and the past forms of to be. This assignment required us to design a short, student-friendly instructional video, create a lesson plan for both pre- and in-class teaching using the ASSURE model and finally reflect on the whole experience. I completed this task with my group members Halil and Sude, and you can check their blogs by clicking on their names.😁
In our video, we started with a mini warm-up where students were introduced to the idea of completed past actions and past states. Then, the main scenes explained regular and irregular verbs, the difference between did/didn’t and was/were, and several time expressions such as yesterday, last week, and two years ago. We also included short practice items inside the video so that students could test themselves as they watched. After the video, students move on to an online quiz to consolidate what they learned—very convenient for a flipped model!
Here is our video material;
And here is the ASSURE-model lesson plan;
The most challenging part during the design process was definitely the arrangement of the clips in the video. I used to edit videos for my cousins social media. I can tell you that it is as hard as I remember it was. But, it was also the most fun. I realized that I still have it in me.😉💕
If this material were used in a real classroom, a few issues might appear. Some students may not watch the video beforehand, which could weaken the flipped approach. Technical problems—like weak Wi-Fi, sound issues, or difficulty accessing the quiz—can also interrupt the flow of the learning process. Additionally, students might confuse was/were with did/didn’t, so the teacher would need to provide guidance throughout the activities.
Overall, this task helped me explore material design in a more practical way and reflect on how multimedia tools can actually support language teaching when used thoughtfully and purposefully.
Thank you for reading, and I promise these projects will keep getting more and more fun. I speak from experience! 😍
See you soon,
Loved, Begüm (the Simple-Past version)!
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