Flipped Classrooms
Personalizing Instruction for Students With Video
Background: What's a Flipped Classroom?
The principal idea behind flipped classrooms is to reverse, or flip, the traditional teaching model. So, instead of giving your instruction to students during class time, you assign it to students to watch as a video at home. When they return to class, students work on applying this new knowledge through labs and other activities. This in turn gives the teacher more time to work one-on-one with students in order to help meet their individual needs better in the classroom.
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Example: How it Works in Practice
The video below gives you a great insight into what flipped learning looks like in practice. It tells the story of how one school flipped every classroom in their building and the benefits that they saw from doing this. It is a fascinating tale and one that exemplifies some of the best ideas associated with flipped learning.
When This School Got Rid of Homework, It Saw a Dramatic Outcome
Flipping the Elementary Classroom
Can you flip an elementary classroom with primary students? Many teachers do, and the video below gives an example of how that can be done. This school calls it a faux-flip. It is an interesting adaptation of the traditional flipped learning model and can be a great way to prepare students for a full flipped experience in later grade levels.
Classroom Innovation Spotlight: Second-grade Faux Flipped Classroom
Flipping the Un-Flippable?
Some teachers think that their particular classroom is not, for whatever reason, conducive to flipped learning. They believe that their content, structure, or instructional methods just don't flip very easily. However, with a little imagination, almost any classroom can be flipped. Don't believe me? Read the following Edutopia article from Jon Bergmann.
Flipped Videos: Curation vs. Creation
When assigning videos for students to watch outside of the classroom you really only have two choices. You either create one yourself, or you use one that someone else has already created. Both options have their pros and cons.
Videos created by others will save you time and get content to your students quickly and efficiently. However, the content is not always going to be taught the way you would teach it, and it is not as personal as creating a video yourself.
Creating your own video is not as hard as you might think, but it definitely takes a little practice. This can be time consuming, but your students will likely be more engaged and invested in your video if you are the one that is doing the teaching.
Challenge: How to Get Started
Are you intrigued by flipped classrooms? Curious about how to get started? Start small. Find a video on YouTube that has content related to your next unit of work. Use it to flip one lesson and see how well it works. Even the pros don't flip every lesson. It simply isn't necessary, so try flipping one lesson a week and keep track of the results and benefits you see in the classroom. Consider branching out and using a tool like Google Forms or EduCanon to add some accountability to the video viewing experience. Poll your students and see which instructional model they prefer and use this information to help guide your flipped journey.
Read More on Flipped Classrooms
Interested in learning more about flipped classrooms? Check out some of the articles below to gain more insight into this valuable instructional strategy.
- A Model for the Flipped Classroom
- Flipped classroom - LiveBinder
- Online Guides Help Teachers Flip Their Classrooms
- The Flipped Classroom: Turning the Traditional Classroom on its Head
- 6 Ways To Support Students Without Internet Access At Home
- The Flipped Classroom FAQ
- 10 Pros And Cons Of A Flipped Classroom
- Flipped-Learning Toolkit
- Classroom Management and the Flipped Class
- 15 Schools Using Flipped Classrooms Right Now
- Tech Tools of the Flipped Classroom
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