 Hi there, my name is Jay, I'm from Maristem and Maristem resources are made by volunteers who are experts in their fields and we have contributors who are from the university, from ANU and also from the community experienced teachers and one of our experienced teachers in Canberra is Catherine and she has shared with us a whole heap of chemistry resources for our chemistry Maristem and we've just filmed a video to introduce your students to Catherine and so I thought you might like to get to meet her too. So hi Catherine. Hello. Thank you again. Now tell us how long have you been flipping? I tried out my first sort of flipped classroom back in 2012, towards the end of the year I had a year 12 class. It was the first time I'd taught senior chemistry so I was only two years out as a new teacher and I had so much content to get through and I came across this idea of flip learning and I thought I would just give it a go to see if it would help with packing so much content into what was at the time a really short period of time so that was how I started. Yeah right and how did you then come to it like how did it develop then? So I made that first set of videos which when I look back on them now they were pretty rough but what I found was that the kids took to them really well despite all their inadequacies. The students found them really useful and it just gave me a lot more time in class than practice so with that under my belt I thought I think I could probably do this better so over the the next couple of years I started deciding on set of curriculum to make videos for and improving my video skills as I went and just built up a library of videos and once I once I had a library it just made things better and better I then had more time to improve what I was doing in the classroom and the whole thing kind of snowballs as you as you go along. Yeah right and that's that's a question that we get asked a lot by teachers who are sort of flipping curious and they say Jesus does it really help you make better use of class time? Yeah absolutely without doubt so there is a lot of time that goes into the beginning when you're preparing all your resources and I think this is where Maristem is so brilliant because it kind of cuts out that for a lot of teachers you've got this set of resources ready to go um but once you have those resources what it means is you have so much extra time and headspace to think about how you're actually working in the classroom to make that more efficient so you know redesigning the the way that you interact with the kids redesigning cracks uh redesigning worksheets everything so that they fit better with the videos and that the kids get more out of them. Yeah great okay so you've um shared a lot of these resources with us now and what have you learnt over the time? Um oh well so how to make a video was a big one um so I I found that um you so I there were a couple of things that I kind of picked up as I went along one was this issue which a lot of flippers come across which is how do you get the kids to watch the videos and there are there are a lot of ways to approach this but one is to be really strict with them essentially to go cold to say I'm not going to reteach the video in the class unless it's clear that there's something wrong with the video right so you and thankfully with the Maristome ones there isn't you guys do such a good job of curating and fixing the the stuff that we give you um that they're they're really good uh so you you have to say to the kids no it's it's your responsibility to watch and take notes and then to ask specific questions do you make that really clear you hold the line and then the kids come it's a line with you another thing is to teach the kids how to watch the video so to show them you know that they can't just sit there listening to music and checking their phone while they're watching the video that that doesn't count it's not going to work so you give them you know practice and and you kind of role play that for them and another thing is that you tailor the stuff that they're doing in class so that it's really obvious to them that having watched the video they're better able to do the stuff in class and for the kids who turned up the class and didn't watch the video they're like oh man everyone else knows what's going on and then you get the peer pressure aspect of it as well and if you implement those three things and they're consistent about it then you'll get most of your kids on board there's always a couple of kids who are recalcitrant but generally they're the same kids that if you taught in the traditional way they wouldn't do the homework anyway they'd kind of sit in your classroom zone out and then complain that you didn't so you know you can't please everyone all of the time but flip-learning I reckon allows you to please most people most yeah cool thank you I hope the useful useful tips as well for teachers starting with flipping as well if anyone has more questions to ask us or Catherine or other teachers we know who use Maristam resources or if you want to share your own resources with Maristam then please get in touch and happy teaching excellent see you