The Double Flipped Professional Development Training Program: A Voyage towards Digital Transformation

Abstract

The road from implementing the flipped classroom concept in classrooms to incorporating it into teacher preparation programs is called From Flipped to Double Flipped. The objective was to train teachers in order to provide them the information, skills, and competence to implement the flipped classroom concept in real classroom settings before using it in the actual classroom. As a result, a current project was designed to give secondary school instructors a hands-on opportunity to learn how flipped classrooms operate. For this reason, the flipped classroom concept was used to create a double flipped professional development training program. It consists mostly of three phases. The five stages of the ADDIE instructional design model—analyze, design, develop, implement, and evaluate—were taken into consideration during its creation. Initially, a field investigation was carried out to investigate the conditions on the ground. Second, the double flipped professional development training program was created based on the findings, and instructional materials—most notably an e-book—were created in accordance with the program's design. Later, a three-day workshop was arranged as part of the proposed program's implementation. In the end, there were two methods of evaluation. First, the participants of the training program flipped their actual classrooms for one month. Second, a follow-up workshop was conducted again where they shared their personal experiences along with the evidences or sample of their flipped classrooms. Data was gathered twice through conducting focus group discussions with the participant firstly, after the three-day training workshop and secondly after the follow-up workshop again. The findings showed that the participants were overall satisfied with the quality of the Double Flipped PD Training Program. For one month, the training program participants flipped their actual classrooms. Second, they participated in a second workshop where they discussed their individual experiences as well as examples of supporting documentation from their flipped classrooms. The results demonstrated the participants' general satisfaction with the Double Flipped PD Training Program's quality. They were impressed by how well the flipped classroom concept worked as a component of the professional development programs for instructors.