Reflection on Instructional Model

This year I chose to delve in to the possibility of a flipped classroom. I truly believe that flipped learning is the way to go in the foreign language classroom. Imagine - motivated learners watching a grammar lesson at home and coming in to class with the concept at least familiar to them. The class time is then spent putting that grammar concept in to practice - as in, actually speaking the language! I certainly am not the only language teacher to appreciate the possibilities of a flipped language classroom - there are blogs aplenty on the topic - not just flipped classrooms, but flipped language classrooms. I need more time to see how this can play out in my Spanish I classes (not gonna happen in my Intro Spanish classes - we do not cover grammar, and I just don't think that they have enough motivation for their nine-week Related Arts class to do homework, let alone watch video posts). But really, that is my only obstacle - TIME! I am looking forward to doing at least one topic per chapter as a flipped lesson next year. I hope to get the videos made this summer and then my next step will be to develop activities for students to rotate through on the class after watching the post. I can't wait!