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A Realist’s Guide
What is
the flipped
classroom?
Just what it sounds like: a learning model in which the classic
Since its emergence circa 2007, the flipped classroom has gotten
a lot of buzz. It is praised as a way to do the following
“In all honesty, we recorded our lessons out of selfishness. We were spending
inordinate amounts of time re-teaching lessons to students who missed class,
and the recorded lectures became our first line of defense. Our absent students
loved the recorded lectures. Students who missed class were able to learn what
they missed. Some students who were in class and heard the live lecture began
to re-watch the videos. Some would watch them when reviewing for exams…
We began to share the links to the recorded lectures, and teachers from all over
the country began to take notice … All in all, it was amazing to see what we were
doing in our small town being noticed across the country.”
3. Skills for the real world:By working in groups, students are getting a
preview of what their postsecondary and real world experience will look like,
where group problem solving and project-based learning are part of the daily
routine.
5. Improved quality of life:“I still start about 6:30 a.m. to get the lab set up.
But I leave between 3 and 3:30 p.m. I don’t have to take home grading because
students do most of their work in class, and it’s graded there so they get
immediate feedback. I give students my home phone number in case they are
confused at home about what they’re doing. Before the flipped class, I would
get up to 30 calls a night. Now, I get one or two a week. Students can rewind
my lecture and listen again and again. They can bring questions into class the
next day where they can get hands-on help. And my working day ends with the
school day. I get to spend time with my family in the evening, and that makes a
big difference.”
“We gave the teachers who were doing our flipped classroom pilots some
examples,” said Jennifer Shoaf, PA Cyber’s curriculum director. “We said, ‘Your
pages need to look like this. Your video should be this long. Your lesson should
last this long. It should include these components. Now, you make it work for
your subject and your teaching style.’”
Those parameters were freeing, rather than limiting, said flipped classroom
teacher Christine Crow, who noted that instructors still put their own unique spin
Sticking to the guidelines made flipping
on lectures and materials.
her class less overwhelming, she said, and because all the
teachers follow the same format, peer-to-peer advice was
on-point and incredibly valuable. “We are all in it together.”
Using ACT’s College Readiness assessment, the school will evaluate subgroups
of math and science scores to compare how students in Spurlock’s flipped
chemistry and physics classes perform compared with students in traditional
classes.
The results will show whether the anecdotal evidence of student success in
flipped classes can be verified and quantified.