Flipped?? What is that??? I'm flipping out!
Definition: The flipped classroom is a model of teaching in which a student’s homework is the traditional lecture viewed outside of class on a vodcast. Then class time is spent on inquiry-based learning which would include what would traditionally be viewed as a student’s homework assignment. Synonymous with Reverse Classroom.
I find flip learning very beneficial. It is almost like a customized type of learning for all students. It doesn't matter if you are a fast pace or slow pace learner, this could work for anyone! My senior year of high school I was very sick and in and out of the hospital making it hard for me to be in class. This made me fall very far behind all of the other students in my grade. I had to rely on my friends coming over to catch me up on school work, but that didn't always work because they didn't always have all of the information that a teacher would have. Flip learning makes it possible through videos for students to learn outside of the classroom by watching the teacher lecture. Also if you are in class and just want some extra help or a refresher you can re-watch the videos to have help in the classroom. Also with this style of teaching and learning you have more time in the class to do projects and hands on learning by watching the videos of the lecture before class.
Pros For Flipped Learning:
1. Move at your own pace
2. Review lectures
3. More able to have one on one with students
4. More able to catch up on missed work
5.Learn on the go
6. customized testing (projects, papers, lectures)
Cons for Flipped Learning
1.Lack of access to recourse's (computers, Internet)
2. To much time on computers
3. Less face to face interactions
In my future classroom I don't see this working for me because I plan on working with Pre-k students. But I could possibly make videos to show the parents what we are doing in my classroom and show examples of ways to carry what we are doing in class for at home practice. If I was planning on teaching high grades I would by far use this as a recourse's because I wish this was a style of learning that was available to me, also I was a horrible test taker and I believe that I could of very much benefited from this when I was in highschool and still now.
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