Online ISSN: 2515-8260

Importance of Using Flipped Classroom to Teach Health Education during Movement Control Order (MCO) in Malaysia

Main Article Content

Kumaran Gengatharan1,Azali Bin Rahmat2,Ahmad Najib Abd Razak3

Abstract

Abstract: Flipped Classroom is an instructional technique and a form of blended learning that reverses the conventional learning experience by providing online and outside the classroom educational content.. It consists of engaging activities, such as homework and discussions. In a flipped classroom, students watch online teaching and then collaborate with the teacher in online discussion (Sadiya & M. Farooque, 2020). Flipped mastery classrooms apply a mastery learning model that requires each student to master a topic before moving to the next one (Ramakrishnan et al., 2016). This study was conducted to find out the importance of using the Flipped Classroom to teach Health Education during movement control order (MCO) in Malaysia for Year Six students. This research will also show the teacher’s effectiveness in teaching Health Education subject during this pandemic. Few videos based on Health Education syllabus were made by the researcher and uploaded in Google Drive, and the link was shared to the students. This research was conducted for the past three weeks since the movement control order been implemented by the Malaysian government. The videos were made using video Power Director 17 software. Survey method (questionnaire) was used in this research. It was used to gain data regarding students’ encouragement, interest, motivation, interaction, involvement to learn Health Education from the usage of the Flipped Classroom method. Findings of this research show that there is an increase in students’ encouragement, interest, motivation, interaction, involvement after flipped classroom was conducted.

Article Details