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Flipped Instruction. Teacher Toolkit. Five Best Practices for the Flipped Classroom. Ok, I'll be honest.
I get very nervous when I hear education reformists and politicians tout how "incredible" the flipped-classroom model, or how it will "solve" many of the problems of education. It doesn't solve anything. It is a great first step in reframing the role of the teacher in the classroom. It fosters the "guide on the side" mentality and role, rather than that of the "sage of the stage. " It helps move a classroom culture towards student construction of knowledge rather than the teacher having to tell the knowledge to students.
It also creates the opportunity for differentiated roles to meet the needs of students through a variety of instructional activities. 1) Need to Know How are you creating a need to know the content that is recorded? 2) Engaging Models One of the best way to create the "need to know" is to use a pedagogical model that demands this. 3) Technology What technology do you have to support the flipped classroom?
4) Reflection 5) Time and Place. Flipped The Classroom. How "flipping" changed instruction for two math teachers - Related Stories - NCTM SmartBrief. Skip to main content Browse All Briefs by Topic How "flipping" changed instruction for two math teachers Forward to a friend Math teachers Wendy Roshan and daughter Stacey Roshan write in this blog post about how "flipping" their Advanced Placement Calculus classes changed the direction of their lessons and boosted AP test scores.
By having their students watch video lectures for homework and then practice working through problems during class, the teachers had more time to provide one-on-one help for students. View Full Article in: Education | Academic Specialization Published in Brief: Math Education SmartBrief SmartBrief Job Listings for Education View More Job Openings ©2014 SmartBrief. It’s never too late to begin flipping your classroom. By Stacey Roshan and Wendy Roshan, Special to CNN Editor’s note: Stacey Roshan is the daughter of Wendy Roshan.
Stacey is a math teacher at the Bullis School in Potomac, Maryland. Wendy is a math teacher at the Madeira School in McLean, Virginia. Stacey: Soon after graduating from college, I decided to follow in my mother's career path and become a high school math teacher. My mom helped me with this transition to the teaching world, as I had no prior educational training. By my second year, I was teaching AP calculus. That summer, two awesome things happened that would change everything. First, my mom decided that she wanted to teach AP calculus, so for the first time we were teaching the same course.
When I got home after the conference, I started to flip my classroom. When classes began in the fall, I told my students that video lectures were going to be watched for homework, and class time would be used to discuss and work through problems.