Flipping My Classroom
What’s Flipped Learning?
What does that mean?
Direct instruction (what usually happens in the classroom) ~ flips to the home setting.
What will happen in the classroom?
Application, analysis =high cognitive activity, (what usually happens at home) ~ flips to the classroom.
Flipping the classroom encourages the student to be responsible for learning,
and the teacher becomes responsible for facilitating higher cognitive activities.
- Flipped Learning is a pedagogical approach in which direct instruction moves from the group learning space to the individual learning space, and the resulting group space is transformed into a dynamic, interactive learning environment where the educator guides students as they apply concepts and engage creatively in the subject matter.
What does that mean?
- Information about the subject, and the concept that students are learning, will happen at home, through reading, videos, and other home activities (traditionally called homework).
Direct instruction (what usually happens in the classroom) ~ flips to the home setting.
What will happen in the classroom?
- Students will come to school, familiar with the topic, ready with knowledge, questions prepared, so they can apply the new knowledge in discussion, group projects, research, activities, investigations, experiments, deeper knowledge and more questioning.
Application, analysis =high cognitive activity, (what usually happens at home) ~ flips to the classroom.
Flipping the classroom encourages the student to be responsible for learning,
and the teacher becomes responsible for facilitating higher cognitive activities.