Abstract:

When the future is uncertain, and it is impossible to predict change, the young generation needs to acquire skills that allow them to be open to the new, unknown, and to be able to improve continually. Children who started school in 2018 will enter the labour market in 2030. Thus, the school must prepare them for work that we may not be able to imagine today, for the use of technologies that have not yet developed, for solving problems that are not yet understood. Today, when, as a result of globalization, we face social, economic, and environmental challenges, the development of students' competencies is mentioned as a topical issue in the education systems of all countries of the world. For the learning outcome to be complicated, in which competencies are acquired, it is necessary to organize a student-centred learning process. Student-centred learning can be successfully implemented by using a flipped learning approach, where activities that are usually done in the classroom are done at home and homework that is done as homework is done in the classroom.

The goal of the study is to analyse the possibilities to develop students’ competencies in the education process by using a flipped learning approach.

Within the framework of this article, the scientific literature and data of the empirical study are analysed.

The scientific literature analysis revealed that using a flipped learning approach in the educational process provides an opportunity to develop competencies included in the Latvian National Standard of Basic Education. The empirical study data found that teachers do not have a common understanding of the development of competencies for students. The study found that most teachers believe they have the appropriate knowledge and skills to develop students' competencies, but the results also revealed that they have different views on the essential aspects of the learning process's organization so that the learning outcome of students are competencies. The study also found that most teachers are not familiar with the flipped learning approach, and they have no information about possibilities to develop competencies by using this approach.

The flipped learning approach provides an opportunity to develop students' competencies - to acquire knowledge, develop skills, create values and attitudes. The flipped learning approach can be used in various subjects and at different education levels, from primary school to university students. The school should be a learning organization in which teachers learn to analyse their work and are aware of their learning needs, improve their proficiency by learning from good practice, learning under the guidance of experts, and learning from each other. Higher education institutions should be the first to improve their pre-service teachers' program content to prepare pre-service teachers according to the education system's needs.

Keywords:

Competencies, Flipped learning, Basic education.