Exploring the Strategies for ICT Integration with School-based Professional Development: A Case of a Mainland Chinese Primary School

Abstract

Flipped classroom is a new teaching mode by the influence of information technology application, and videos provided by teachers work as the main form of learning resource. Therefore, students need to complete teaching videos and other related learning resources before class, and then both teachers and students focus on completing homework, Q&A, collaborative inquiry and interactive activities in classroom. From recent researches of the flipped classroom, the basic process of teaching is that students are required to read learning materials and resources – do classroom exercises – teacher gives guidance - summary. When the flipped classroom is applied in vocational training, there are issues to be considered and resolved, such as how to present knowledge, ability and value through "video"; how to reasonably allocate and effectively integrate in-class time and after-class time in training; how to connect physical classroom with network classroom; how to overcome the limitations of reliability and validity of the training content, mode and evaluation. The article mainly focuses on four aspects of the Flipped classroom: What flipped classroom is; the role and effect of flipped classroom; How to implement the flipped classroom in vocational training and adult education; the restrictions and challenges of implementing the flipped Classroom. The main findings are that Flipped classroom is an effect way for vocational training. It is suitable for adults and puts forward higher requirement for instructors and learners.