Flipped Classroom

 

 

 

"The way we were taught is not necessarily 

the way we should be teaching students."

                                - Stacey Roshan, HS Algebra Teacher, Bullis School

 

The days of the teacher as "sage on the stage" are numbered.  Instead, the teacher becomes the "guide on the side" where students are using the class/school experience as a fully interactive experience WITH the teacher  - - instead of the teacher being the one-way traditional talking head.   This way, students are asking questions and solving problems with the teacher or fellow students -  instead of just sitting compliantly and listening - where the teacher can spend more time addressing specific questions and personalized attention, rather than just the one-size-fits-all lecture.  some advantages of "Flipped Classroom" for students:

• downlaod and learn from recorded lectures at their own pace and time, including features such as pause, rewind, watch again, and review.
• much more time to "do" than just listen.
• Improve students skills in technology field.
• working in groups help students to improve their communication skills.
• teach students how to be a learner.
• help students to be a creative one.

One problem that not all the student can access the net, so the school could allocate time and lab with net for those students.

Every teacher knows that when it comes to student learning, face - time is an invaluable limited resource. How can we gainfully leverage what little face -time that we have so that it best benefits students? As technology emerges to help us answer that question in new ways.
Some advantages of "Flipped Classroom" for teachers:

• Teacher have more interactive face -time with students.
• Teacher can see the benefits and drawbacks to the work they're assinging.
• Parents can follow and participate in their child's learning without being obtrusive.
• Allow teacher to play a more active role in facilitating the learning process.

Although the "Flipped Classroom" model would allow students to ask the teacher a question on class later on if they don't understand, this might also lead to wasted time. If a student does't understand a fundamental concepts, the rest of the video will not make sense. In the event that the teacher has to explain it over again in person, there was no point to listening to the video in the first time.

I think not all the topics can be in flipped classroom espacially that topics with fundamental concepts, the teacher should be careful about the topics that he will make them in flipped classroom model, it shuold not cantain fundamental concepts.