TEACHER AS A PRINCIPLE ELEMENT OF THE “FLIPPED CLASSROOM” TECHNOLOGY

Abstract

The article analyzes the experience of the Flipped Classroom technology implementation on the example of “Russian Language and Culture of Speech” discipline. The author has summarized the results of a student survey that prove the effectiveness of a digital educational environment as means of optimizing classroom lectures. The article focuses on technological, scientific, and methodological aspects of teacher’s activity in conditions of changing his/her roles – from “sage on the stage” (lecturer) to “guide on the side” (tutor, instructor); it also defines the competences of higher education teachers that are relevant in the conditions of Flipped Classroom technology implementation. The article shows the important role of a higher education teacher who is at the same time a scientist, a counselor, a manager of electronic educational environment, a tutor, and a curator for a new generation of future specialists in different fields. The professionalism of a higher education teacher has a strong impact on the teaching materials, the effectiveness of methods and forms of individual studies, and classroom interaction.

Keywords

• “ flipped classroom”
• flipped classroom technology
• higher education teacher’s competences
• mixed education
• digital educational environment
• active learning