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The Flipped Classroom Approach

Move theory home and turn class time into active learning, with or without technology, step by step.

About 2 hours

9 lessons

Self-paced

€25

one-off payment

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A practical course for primary and secondary teachers who want to flip their lessons: what the method is, and how to prepare home materials, plan in-class activities, motivate students to prepare and make the most of class time.

What you will learn

  • Understand what a flipped classroom is, where it comes from and what advantages and challenges it brings
  • Prepare content for the home phase by recording yourself, using digital tools, choosing ready-made videos or going low-tech
  • Explain to students how to engage with pre-class materials, and deal with those who arrive unprepared
  • Run the in-class phase, from checking understanding to discussions, case studies, peer teaching and other collaborative activities

About this course

In a flipped classroom, students study the theory at home, through videos, readings or other materials, and class time is used for what matters most: applying, discussing, experimenting and working together. The teacher moves from lecturer to guide, and every student gets more time to practise and more personal support.

This course takes you through the method one phase at a time: preparing the content for home, planning the activities for class, explaining a new kind of homework, checking whether students engaged with the content and running an active, collaborative lesson. Practical tips, summary tables and three complete lesson plans for primary, middle and high school help you flip your first lesson, even with little or no technology.

Course content

9 lessons · about 2 hours

The course opens with an introduction to the method and continues with one topic for each of the five phases of a flipped lesson. In each phase, short video lessons follow the trainer’s slides step by step, and summary tables to download help you keep the key ideas at hand. The final topic contains three complete lesson plans, each with its materials for the home phase, ready to adapt for your own classes.

  • 70% Video Short lessons with your trainer
  • 30% Slides Presentations and readings
  1. 1 Introduction Locked
  2. 2 Welcome to the course! Locked
  3. 3 1. Welcome 5 topicsLocked
  4. 4 2. Phase 1 – Content Preparation 5 topicsLocked
  5. 5 3. Phase 2 – Activity Preparation Locked
  6. 6 4. Phase 3 – Explain how to do the Homework Locked
  7. 7 5. Phase 4 – check Engagement 2 topicsLocked
  8. 8 6. Phase 5 – In Class 3 topicsLocked
  9. 9 Conclusion Locked

The lessons open once you are enrolled.

Your trainer

Cristina Salvatori

Cristina Salvatori

Teacher trainer in Florence

Cristina trains teachers in Florence and is Quality Advisor for Europass Teacher Academy. Her courses focus on practical, active approaches, from classroom debates and project-based learning to soft skills and strategies for diverse classes.

  • Licensed preschool educator, with a strong interest in alternative school approaches
  • Degree in Italian Literature and Communication, University of Florence
  • Trained in teaching English as a second language and in lifelong education
  • Teacher trainer at Europass since 2018

Based on an original course by Iacopo Falciani.

Your certificate

Complete all the lessons and your certificate of completion is generated automatically, ready to download as a PDF.

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