Flipped Classroom
This year my colleague and I have been working on the idea of the Flipped Classroom. Do you know what that is? It's an idea where instead of content lectures in class, they are presented with content material at home. The idea is to "flip" lectures, so that there is more time for exploration and investigations in class.
I have never really been a "lecture" teacher - but, truth be told...we do need to teach content. In the past, I have spent time introducing content through non-fiction books, content charts, diagrams on chart paper, and through videos. All of these methods I still use, however, now I have also added the blog idea for homework.
We started this idea of flipping by subscribing to a very well known "flip" resource that my son was using in high school. I thought...why not! Well, it didn't work for us...within one hour of the site going live we had over 200 comments from our students. They were using it as a social outlet - since…
I have never really been a "lecture" teacher - but, truth be told...we do need to teach content. In the past, I have spent time introducing content through non-fiction books, content charts, diagrams on chart paper, and through videos. All of these methods I still use, however, now I have also added the blog idea for homework.
We started this idea of flipping by subscribing to a very well known "flip" resource that my son was using in high school. I thought...why not! Well, it didn't work for us...within one hour of the site going live we had over 200 comments from our students. They were using it as a social outlet - since…