Saturday, May 20, 2017

Welcome to my Flipped Learning blog!

Guten Tag! I am Birgit Jensen, an associate professor in the Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literatures at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. 

I have been teaching GERMAN  since 1987 and love my profession. But as time went by, I realized that my students, their needs, and instructional technologies were changing, and that I needed to change alongside with them in order to keep reaching my learners. That is when I discovered the flipped classroom. Since 2014, I have taught my Beginning GERMAN courses as flipped classes, and I have never looked back since then. Better still, as I got better at this innovative teaching strategy, my students and I started to experience the benefits of FLIPPED LEARNING

I am writing this blog to help other foreign language instructors, particularly those teaching GERMAN, flip their classrooms. There are few resources (yet) on the Web, necessitating FL teachers interested in flipping their classes to re-invent the wheel. 

Well, no more! Here you will learn about my BEST PRACTICES J as well as pitfalls L to avoid. Although I teach at the university level, you can easily apply my tips to middle and high school GERMAN courses as well.

HAPPY READING and don't hesitate to contact me with your questions!

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