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The Biggest Hurdle to Flipping Your Class

The Biggest Hurdle to Flipping Your Class
I have been asked on a number of occasions what is the biggest hurdle that teachers need to overcome in order to flip their classrooms. In my experience, the number one hurdle is that teachers need to flip their thinking about class time. Stepping Back from an Old Model When teachers flip their classes, I believe they must ask one key question: What is the best use of class time? Is it information dissemination, or is it something else? Why is this a big hurdle? My class was well structured, and I liked being in control of all that was happening. Teaching Learners I should provide some context for this experiment. So as I reluctantly gave up control, I was relieved to see students taking ownership for their learning. I realized in this encounter that maybe the best thing I am teaching students is how to be learners. Alternative Assessments Another way I flipped my thinking about learning was when I allowed students to demonstrate mastery of content by means of alternative assessments. Related:  Blogs educación

EL BLOG DE JACOBO CALVO: TÉCNICAS E INSTRUMENTOS DE EVALUACIÓN. ¿ES LO MISMO? ¿Es la expresión oral un instrumento de evaluación? ¿Y un cuaderno? ¿Es una prueba una técnica o un instrumento? Menudo lío nos traemos en las redes sociales, marcos normativos y algunos libros especializados ahora que estamos en proceso de reciclaje con esto de evaluar según LOMCE o de cómo evaluar estándares de aprendizaje e indicadores de evaluación. Seré bastante preciso en mi respuesta; para ello voy a seguir los pasos propios de un trabajo monográfico de investigación: Una técnica (del griego, τέχνη [tékne] 'arte, técnica, oficio') es un procedimiento o conjunto de reglas, normas o protocolos que tiene como objetivo obtener un resultado determinado, ya sea en el campo de las ciencias, de la tecnología, del arte, del deporte, de la educación o en cualquier otra actividad. En evaluación docente podemos hablar de técnicas de: OBSERVACIÓN, MEDICIÓN, AUTOEVALUACIÓN Y COEVALUACIÓN. ¿Qué es un instrumento? La herramienta con la que se van a ir registrando las evoluciones del alumnado.

Why I Gave Up Flipped Instruction A little over a year ago I wrote a post about the flipped classroom, why I loved it, and how I used it. I have to admit, the flip wasn’t the same economic and political entity then that it is now. And in some ways, I think that matters. Here’s the thing. When I recently re-read the post, I didn’t disagree with anything I’d said. When I wrote that post, I imagined the flip as a stepping stone to a fully realized inquiry/PBL classroom. What is the flip? The flipped classroom essentially reverses traditional teaching. When I first encountered the flip, it seemed like a viable way to help deal with the large and sometimes burdensome amount of content included in my senior Biology & Chemistry curricula. My flipped experiments I first encountered the flip in a blog post. My students loved the idea of trying something that very few other students were doing. We began to shift What was my role? The flip faded away As this shift occurred, the flip simply disappeared from our classroom. No.

Top 10 Do’s and Don’ts When Flipping Your Classroom #edchat Produce material for YOUR students to engage them outside the classroom. Generic content works as a starting point but students have greater faith in their own teacher’s input.Decide on a workflow solution and stick to it. I use Edmodo to set assignments and annotate responses. Students are happy with this solution as it is cross platform and supports learning with library and backpack resources.Set specific deadlines for your students. If they are given a date then unfortunately that can be construed as midnight!! Expect students to watch/read your material just because you tell them to. This post is in response to the success we have had with workflow and assessment for learning this academic year. Please contact me if you would like to discuss the ‘flipped’ class as I am very keen to hear any new ideas. Like this: Like Loading...

PBL via GLSC Proyecto Clío nº 40 The Flipped Class Revealed Editor's Note: This is Part 3 of 3 of The Flipped Class Series at The Daily Riff. You can start here, by reading this post, and go backwards and still understand what's going on in the conversation. Links to Part 1, "The Flipped Class: What it Is and What it is Not," and Part 2 - "Are You Ready to Flip? The Flipped Class What Does a Good One Look Like? "The classroom environment and learning culture play a large role in determining the best pedagogical strategy." by Brian Bennett, Jason Kern, April Gudenrath and Philip McIntosh The idea of the flipped class started with lecture and direct instruction being done at home via video and/or audio, and what was once considered homework is done in class. Now, it is becoming much more than that. The main reason, maybe the only reason, to flip a class is to provide more class time for learning and that is the major shift that we are seeing as the flip gains popularity across content areas. Originally published by The Daily Riff June 23, 2011

Creating the perfect video lesson for a flipped classroom Mobile learning is gaining momentum. Over the next two years, 12 to 17 year-olds will be the second largest adopters of smartphone technology according to eMarketeer. At the same time, an increasing number of schools are providing smartphone and tablet technology to aid 'anytime, anywhere' learning. The mobile classroom provides many benefits: convenience; the ability to repeat specific parts of any training until a topic is understood; using familiar platforms; and empowering students to take ownership of their own learning. It also encourages the 'flipped classroom' model – an approach I used with my pupils. The flipped teaching technique With the traditional teaching model, students attend lessons and learn the theory behind a subject, and are then assigned homework to assess their knowledge and understanding of the lesson. With flipped teaching, teachers create and assign learning materials for students to view ahead of lessons – in essence, putting the 'homework' task first.

Digital Educator Ce qui fait communauté d'apprentissage Suivre ce blog Utilisez notre Reader et abonnez-vous aux meilleurs articles de ce blog ! 5 things you should know about flipped learning Upside Down Roller Coaster by Austin Kirk on Flickr Flipped learning — the name says it all. It’s a 180-degree shift in how we approach learning and teaching. Our past way of thinking gets turned on its head as down becomes up and we reorient ourselves to a new model for student growth. Many teachers around the globe report smashing success with the flipped model. D students become A students. Jon Bergmann and Aaron Sams, co-authors of Flip Your Classroom and instigators of the flipped revolution, encourage teachers to keep the following in mind as they embark upon their journey toward flipped learning. 1. A flipped classroom will look and feel different than what you’re used to, especially when you’re just getting started. “It will take time,” Sams said. 2. Many students who have struggled in traditional classrooms are able to thrive under the flipped model, largely because it gives students more control over the pace at which they learn. 3. 4. 5. Thinking about flipping?

In 'Flipped' Classrooms, a Method for Mastery Fixes looks at solutions to social problems and why they work. In traditional schooling, time is a constant and understanding is a variable. A fifth-grade class will spend a set number of days on prime factorization and then move on to study greatest common factors — whether or not every student is ready. If student turns in shoddy work in a ‘flipped mastery’ class, she can’t move on to the next level. But there is another way to look at schooling — through the lens of a method called “mastery learning,” in which the student’s understanding of a subject is a constant and time is a variable; when each fifth grader masters prime factorization, for instance, he moves on to greatest common factors, each at his own pace. Mastery learning is not a new idea. One of the advantages of mastery learning is that the student, not the teacher, leads — and we know that people learn far better when they are actively involved. But some teachers are now reviving mastery learning.

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