Investigating the attitudes and perceptions of Primary Education Teachers regarding the flipped classroom method through online training

The educational system in Greece faces a multiplicity of pathogens related to the lack of infrastructure, the inadequacy of state structures to design effective curricula, and the prevalence of obsolete teaching methods that promote "sterile" knowledge, the improper assimilation of information, and the ineffective transmigration of pupils. New and promising teaching methods have been extensively studied over the last decades, with the help of technological advances that can contribute to effective distance learning. The flipped classroom is a good example of new teaching methods that reverses the classical teaching method it obliges students to study homework via the computer and special learning tools and then invites them to solve classroom exercises and queries. So, the process is absolutely the reverse of the classical teaching method currently followed by the Greek education system. In this study we investigate the attitudes and perceptions of primary school teachers regarding the open learning method - flipped classroom, through online training. During the first stage of the survey, a training program was designed and implemented, which was attended by teachers (n = 14) of Primary Education through an online platform designed by the researcher to carry out the reverse-class training. The second phase of the survey includes quantitative and qualitative research methodology. The qualitative method was implemented by using questionnaires containing questions that mainly concerned the quality of the training program attended by teachers (n1 = 14), but there were short questions about their views on the reverse order method. The qualitative method was implemented through semi-structured interviews, which were answered by some of the teachers who attended the training program (n2 = 6) who developed their views and attitudes towards this innovative teaching method.