Generally, many of students have few learning gaps and teachers know it well where they are lagging behind. With in school hours it is not possible to fill these gaps or to couch extra hours for slow learners. There are many ‘free’ tech tools available to help students without much difficulty and with little efforts on the part of teachers. Here I would like to suggest using ‘flipped class’ (FC) methods combined with “formative assessment’ (FA). Before going to elaborate on technology side, let us recap these two methods.
An assessment is knows as formative if and only if it forms subsequent learning. This is also known as ‘assessment as learning’. The point here to note is how the assessment outcomes are helping students to learn. The present day practices of small tests and class room verbal questions, even though termed as formative assessments, they are not helping learner with further learning process, so they cannot be considers as ‘formative learning’. Without feedback for further learning process, the assessment is only a compliance task, instead of learning activity.
There are few misconceptions on ‘Flipped classes’, like replacing teachers with videos, students learning independently. Actually, it is students taking responsibility of their learning and every student get personalised guidance from teachers.
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