Make Thinking Visible Through Flip Classroom Model

What is the flipped classroom?

An innovative teaching model that delivers instructional content outside class through interactive, teacher-created resoruces (eg. Podcast, online digital videos, power-point presentation, etc) and interaction with the content – skill development, practice and related learning activities – is done in class. Moving lectures outside of the classroom allows teachers to spend more 1:1 time with each student. Students have the opportunity to ask questions and work through problems with the guidance of their teachers and the support of their peers - creating a collaborative learning environment.

In a flipped class, instructional activities like explanation and lecture are done at home, while homework activities like math problem sets or writing practice activities are done in class. Thus homework becomes classwork and vice versa.

What are some benefits of this method?

·   Allow teachers to spend more time to faciliate students’ learning

·   Foster stronger student/teacher relationships

·   Offers a way for teachers to share teaching resources with other teachers, students and parents easily

·   Enable students to “rewind” lessons and master topics at their own pace

·   Creates a conducive environment in the classroom that promotes collaborative learning