Flip Your Classroom Shawna Longo Durban Avenue School shawnalongo@gmail.com
One of the most common complaints from teachers is that they never have enough time with their students. One approach to leverage class time more effectively is the flipped classroom model. Through the use of technology with teacher-created instructional videos and interactive lessons, traditional class time can occur at home. The direct instruction becomes the “homework.” Class time can now be spent giving students the guidance and assistance they need to apply their learning through quality differentiation and engaging in collaborative learning with their peers. This teaching strategy is quite timely given our current situation with COVID-19. It can serve you well for blended learning and help give you a structure for handling how you reach all students regardless of whether you are in school, distance learning, or some variety of the two! So, what does a flipped classroom look like? Let’s compare the characteristics of a traditional classroom to a flipped classroom.
As teachers, how many times have we had students return to school with their “homework” either not completed or completely off base? With a flipped classroom approach, teachers are able to use class time to assist students and guide their application of learning while making more connections.
Putting Bloom’s Taxonomy to work! Using a flipped classroom approach puts the revised Bloom’s Taxonomy directly into practice. Moving the REMEMBERING and UNDERSTANDING levels to occur outside of the classroom gives you more time to focus on the higher level cognitive demands of APPLYING, ANALYZING, EVALUATING, and CREATING within the classroom when the students really need assistance and guidance. It will also open up time for more collaboration between students, which can be difficult outside of the school day.
TRADITIONAL CLASSROOM: • Teacher instructs/leads • Students take notes • Students follow guided instruction • Teacher gives assessment • Students have homework to apply their learning FLIPPED CLASSROOM: • Teacher creates pre-recorded videos, podcasts, webi nars, books, and/or website with materials to guide instruction. • Students view the lesson at home and complete guiding questions, activities, assignments, or assess ments. • In class, or distance learning, the next day, students work on what they learned the night before which will take learning to the next level. TEMPO
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