The 4 F-L-I-P pillars ensure that educators are able to teach in a flipped classroom way, by providing them with sufficient knowledge, skills and resources.

The first pillar is the need of a Flexible learning environment, the second pillar shows the need of carefully selecting Learning content to apply with FTC, the third pillar asks for the existence of a viable Learning culture in the institution, the department, and the group of students. And finally, FTC can never be realised without Professionalised educators.

The first step to plan a lesson is to think about what already exists, what we want to achieve (the objectives of the lesson) and how we need to act (the activities that might be organized, prepared). This means that, any educational planning needs to follow the same procedures (be it traditional or using the flipped methodology). Furthermore, in order to achieve the purposes of education, to recognize the current context and the different actors involved becomes crucial.