What Flipping the Classroom means to me

R vanderEyken

A place to create, excite and innovate

Paul @ PE4Learning

Self paced, anytime, anywhere learning for our students

What are these education experts talking about?

  • Awesome Teachers

If there's nothing new under the sun, there are always reinventions of what's already here.

What's already here is Teacher + Student + Objective.

Awesome teachers find innovative ways to reach their objectives, and they always have done. Each of us remembers with fondness the teacher who went out of her way to make our learning more 'complete' by adding out-of-class activities (that didn't feel like homework!)

But even awesome teachers have been limited by the lack of resources at their disposal.

Not any more! Technology gives them huge opportunities to be even more awesome.

  • Killer resources

The modern day teacher has a fast-multiplying range of killer resources at their disposal and they are not afraid to use them. But how? So many aids, so little scheduled class time.

Flipped Classroom

  • Flip it

Enter the Flipped Classroom model. Essentially, this is a type of blended learning which combines out-of-class resource use with in-class teacher contact time.

For the teacher in love with their art form, the Flipped Classroom is proving to be a spectacular success.

  • What the Experts say

This week I asked pioneering educators over on Google+ and Twitter to crystallise their thoughts into a few words to explain what the Flipped Classroom means to them. Here's what they said:

Jeffrey See

Flipped classroom means increased face-to-face time with students

Penny Christensen

Extracting lecture from teacher control to student control

Jason Suter

The flipped classroom allows me to personalize learning, differentiate, allow for self paced learning, and to reach every student every day

R vanderEyken

A place to create, excite and innovate

Paul @ PE4Learning

Self paced, anytime, anywhere learning for our students

Nicholas Pringle

Knowledge at home, active learning in class by solving problems

Shelley Brian

A great way to reach my hard to reach kids

Chris Waterworth

Knowledge and Understanding at home, higher order thinking in class

@lisibo

Turning idea of homework and classwork on its head Prelearning leads to more effective use of class time

@josepicardoSHS

Teaching and learning goes on beyond the confines of the school walls

@langwitch

Learning at home to be more creative in the classroom

@ChrisFullerisms

Giving students the tools in advance to then facilitate lesson creativity

@javiera1974

Students working at their own pace

@spanishsam

Innovative teaching and learning that gives pupils further opportunity

@Nieves_Sadullah

Technique for accomplished learners to become independent in own learning

@icpjones

Freeing classroom time to apply knowledge and develop deep learning

 

Thank you to everyone who took time out to share their expertise. By way of a summary, may I use a single word to express what the Flipped Classroom means to us at Speekee? Personalisation! 

Comments

PE4LearningWed, 19 Feb 2014 11:57:40
Absolutely brilliant! In a summary, PERSONALISATION is what it is all about.  

For me, its the independence they develop through discovery and self paced learning outside of the classroom.  Setting a Flipped Learning task before the start of the next lesson allows the students to get a head start on their learning.  Why should we keep what we are trying to teach them a secret, or be afraid that they already may understand what we are about to teach them?  

By allowing them to research, discover and develop what they know through Flipped Learning, time spent in the classroom can be focused on deeper learning, applying and extending what they know rather than introducing them to the new concepts!

Excellent post Jim; short, sharp and too the point.  Online professional development at its best.

Best regards

Paul @ PE4Learning
Jim PorterThu, 20 Feb 2014 09:11:57
Thank you Paul.

Your comment suggests there's another aspect here, which is that students can teach a thing or two themselves to fellow students as well as the teacher, if they prime themselves in advance of the lesson

Jim

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