PLAN & PREPARE LESSON
Step 1: Define Content Scope, Learning Objectives, & Instructional Strategies
The success of your flipped class depends on the alignment of what you want your students to accomplish before, during, and after the class.
Tips on creating learning objectives for the flipped classroom:
- Write down all the things you’d like students to be able to do. Use action verbs for these things and avoid anything that cannot be measured.
- Put your list in order from least complex to most complex.
- Decide which item(s) in your list students could be expected to master before coming to class.
- Choose a learning objective for the pre-assignment from the less complex objectives--i.e. a building block for more complex objectives.
- Select learning objectives for in-class activities from the more complex objectives.
Examples of Learning Objectives for an Information Literacy Class:
- Students will be able to (or will begin to be able to) formulate a research topic.
- Students will be able to identify sub-topics and keywords related to their topic.
- Students will be able to conduct searches to retrieve journal articles from [database name].
- Students will be able to evaluate the relevance of journal articles retrieved in database search.
Examples of Pre-Assignment matched to above Learning Objectives:
- After watching the assigned videos and/or PowerPoint presentations:
- Use the worksheet provided to develop a research topic.
- Use the worksheet provided to develop sub-topics and keywords related to your topic.
- Use the worksheet provided to develop search strategies; Conduct searches in [database name] to find journal articles relevant to your topic.
- Use the worksheet provided to evaluate search results and revise your search strategies.
