What do teachers who’ve flipped their classrooms have to report? The ‘Flipped Class’ Report. Ah the ‘Flipped’ Class. Yet another educational concept based on previous practice and rebranded to suit modern vernacular? ‘Can you get the lesson recorded a bit earlier sir so we can see it?’ (student A) ‘Not sure about that but it seems you are happier about this way of learning now’ (teacher) ‘It’s alright’ (student A) I think that’s progress and certainly a step ahead of where we were.
I am a ‘flipped’ class convert, even if the term doesn’t quite fit, and I believe it has real merit as the pedagogy develops. Aaron Sams and Jon Bergmann coined ‘The Flipped Class’ and their video explanation was the starting point for my trial. Students refer to classroom time being ‘different’ and ‘strange’. The initial reaction to this process was one of horror and rejection.
The period then begins with a ‘response to stimulus’ task and problems are given to groups that are varied to personalise learning and in particular stretch and challenge. (I let him off that one) Like this: Like Loading... Promise of the ‘flipped classroom’ eludes poorer school districts. By Sarah Butrymowicz Jasmine Redeaux (left) and Nakesha Wilkerson team up to finish a worksheet in a "flipped" chemistry class at their Macon, Ga., high school, while other classmates work on a lab. (Photo by Sarah Butrymowicz) When Portland, Ore., elementary school teacher Sacha Luria decided last fall to try out a new education strategy called “flipping the classroom,” she faced a big obstacle. Flipped classrooms use technology—online video instruction, laptops, DVDs of lessons—to reverse what students have traditionally done in class and at home to learn. Listening to lectures becomes the homework assignment so teachers can provide more one-on-one attention in class and students can work at their own pace or with other students.
But Luria realized that none of her students had computers at home, and she had just one in the classroom. So far, the strategy is showing signs of success. “It’s powerful stuff,” she said, noting that this year was her most successful in a decade of teaching. Khan Academy.