Designing Madness: Feeling Like a 1st Year Teacher (in a good way)

Wow! Kevin Steele was right.  The work for teachers who flip is not really in the videos--it's in filling that class time with valuable activities.

I'm keeping myself organized by using the same unit calendar I gave the class and then I highlighted anything that I needed to generate myself.   That included: all the videos, most of the drills, and the assessments (partially).

The funny thing with this experience is that as far as I've gotten in veering further and further away from the textbook as I matured in my teaching, the unfamiliarity of the flipped class has caused us to delve back into the basic structures and ancillaries from our textbook, Bien Dit.  From the textbook suite, I'm planning to use the workbooks, the communicative activities, more of the book exercises than I ever have, and our assessments are based on scenarios from the assessment program.  The rubrics are not! Trying to keep those aligned to ACTFL standards.

But wow! Back to 1st year status when I felt I had to make so much myself.  Hear/Say exercises for spelling, info gap for numbers, all new stuff!

Hopefully once we get more into the dialogues, I'll be able to do more variations on what I've already created rather than having to make brand new activities. Granted, I never really had great drill activities for the alphabet and numbers because...all the time I had for those topics, I spent presenting them! Nertz to that!