A BLENDED CLASSROOM + STUDENTS’ SELF-ASSESSMENT = VISIBLE LEARNING

How can a blended classroom make room for a better and closer relationship between the teacher and his/her students, and how can this relationship gain engagement in the students' learning?

The flipped learning model has brought many teachers across the globe to make their own instructional videos and make these as their students' homework. This presentation will show how the students' self-assessment of their learning process in connection with their online activities will impact the time teachers and students spend in the classroom together.

In the teaching model presented here, the students fill out a digital self-assessment form where they are explaining for the teacher the learning outcome of the activities they've done on the outside of the classroom, and not to forget - using their own words trying to explain where they need help to move forward. In this way the teacher knows where each students needs guidance, which impact how the teacher will meet the students in the classroom.

This self-assessment gives:
1) the student a chance to reflect upon their own learning;
2) the teacher a sign on where the students' are in learning process; and
3) a common ground from where the teacher and student together can find the way forward.

The combination of online communication and H2H (human-to-human) communication between the teacher and the students builds up a more transparent environment, where the teacher over time builds up the students' trust in that the teacher will use his/her insight in the students' misunderstandings or misconceptions to guide them forward in the right direction, and where these misconceptions can be used as opportunities to a deeper understanding.