Session Description

Flip to Learn, Learn to Serve, and Serve to Learn is a sub-project in iEARN's International Film Club. This project, conducted at OKE Language Center in Morocco, uses flipped learning and film to engage youth in the learning process and inspire them to take action in their community, with active parent involvement. Participants in this workshop will be introduced to the project, the concept of flipped learning, and how they can apply a similar strategy in their classrooms or community centers. Additionally, Moroccan youth who participated in this project will share their experience. 

What will educators learn and be able to do at the end of the session?

Goals:

1. Sharing a new pedagogy that is based on learning by doing 

2. Showing that education is not limited to words: it is action. We call it: Learn, live and lead.

3. Collaboration is not limited to students: It also involves parents. They become active participants

4. Giving another chance to the underprivileged kids to stay in school. They feel that they are not alone.

5. Show that kids can conduct big projects while they are provided with guidance and given the chance to make a difference.

6. This project is multi-dimensional: It can help teachers get inspired to build and conduct big projects that start in class, based on an inspiring film.

7. Teaching the students the importance of sustainable development through involving them in literacy programs and participating in setting solar energy programs. The students become more responsible and aware because they have done it.

Additional Session Information

This project is conducted in collaboration with a primary school, named Imam Chatibi, in one of the poorest neighborhoods in my hometown, Berkane. Most of the students, aged 6-11, are obliged to dropout due the grinding poverty. They have to help support their families by begging in the streets, helping the street vendors or working as housekeepers.

Our Language Center has been helping those kids to stay in school, by conducting a lot of activities tightly connected to our curriculum and program. Every year, since 2012, we launch a campaign called “Cook to Raise a Smile”. This takes different stages to help the underprivileged kids and build our students' leadership skills, along with sensitizing the parents by involving them in the project.

About the process for our project:

1. Viewing a film or documentary related to citizenship and the importance of voluntary work.

At this stage, we use flipped learning methodology: the students watch the film in class and then they are engaged in the so-called individual space activities (out of class activities). In class, what we call group space, the students work more leadership skills, namely Collaboration, Communication, Critical thinking creativity and citizenship. 

2. Creativity - Project based learning activities:

When it comes to creativity, the students starts a collaborative project called cook to raise a smile. The students have one week of in-school public activities: They cook their food and prepare beverages and sell in school the food. Meanwhile, they invite speakers and present debates about volunteering. What is very interesting, the parents are involved: they cook and sell the food. A group of students, named to manage the activities and follow the development the project, prepare reports and conduct field researches. 

3.  School visit - sharing the donations:

After one week of intensive work in school, where the students have a lot of fun competing to collect as much funds as possible and building their Leadership skills listed above (the 5Cs), they buy new clothes for the poor kids, collect used but very clean ones and buy books for their school library. For instance, this year the number of the students who benefited from the campaign is more than 300 kids. Equally important, we equipped their school library with tables, chairs and more that 500 books. What is more, the parents, collaborating with our Center, have decided to implement the solar energy panels to have an easier and cheaper access to water in the school. This will achieved in the coming few months, as we have agreed with a company specialized in solar energy.

4. Conferencing:

In May, the team, which has been supervising the project, will present at OKE Conference the different stages and outcomes of the project: flip to learn, learn to serve and serve to learn.

This project starts in class and become a school project that involves: students, parents, teachers and our partners, who are Imam Chatibi primary school.

Session Resources

Flip to learn, learn to serve and serve to learn: No Child left behind experience
1- The video: This covers 3 main stages. Each is followed by different activities that we will have at the conference. a- How we flip lessons and mainly films. b- Parent's involvements in the Creativity activities in Public: bake sale, and different stages of donation compaign c- Interviewing Imam Chatibi school principal 2- PPT presentation

flip to learn learn to serve and serve to learn resources
This involves the different activities that will take place at our workshop

Flip to learn, learn to serve and serve to learn PDF
This is PPT presentation converted into PDF for printing reasons

iearn 2018 flip to learn learn to serve and serve to learn Khalid Fethi
This file involves workshop activities added to some questions on the videos: Flip to learn and serve to learn.

iearn 2018 Flip to learn learn to serve and serve to learn Khalid Fethi
This is the first video I am using: Flip to learn. It gives details about the different stages of OKE flipped lessons, mainly films.

iearn 2018 Flip to learn learn to serve and serve to learn Khalid fethi
This is my PPT presentation

iearn Flip to learn, learn to serve and serve to learn ( Khalid Fethi)
This is the second video of flip to learn learn to serve and serve to learn. It includes 2 parts: CAP and an interview with Imam Chatibi school to speak about the global collaboration: OKE, Parents and Imam Chatibi

iearn 2018 conference Flip to learn learn to serve and serve to learn Khalid Fethi
This is the first video I am using in my presentation. It describes how we flip our lessons, mainly films. It includes questions I am asking in my workshop.