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Discover a comprehensive guide designed to help educators effortlessly flip their classrooms. Explore practical tips, engaging strategies, and useful resources to transform your teaching experience and create a dynamic learning environment for your students.
Imagine your science lesson on planetary systems or a geometry classroom session flipping like a bunch of eggs on a pan 🍳. This innovative flipped learning approach has gained significant traction globally in recent years, particularly during the 2020 pandemic.
But what makes this learning approach so effective, and how can you leverage it in your classroom?
Flipped learning, a concept that has since transformed classrooms worldwide, went viral when two American 🇺🇲 high school teachers, Jon Bergmann and Aaron Sams, began pre-recording and distributing their classroom lectures to students in advance in the late 2000s, turning the traditional learning model on its head.
They enabled students to understand concepts at their own pace and then apply them in the classroom through practical activities. Since then, it has experienced phenomenal growth, leading to the Flipped Learning Network (FLN), a community for educators to share resources and experiences related to Flipped Learning. You might already be flipping your classroom with supplemental videos and readings, but to engage in flipped learning, one needs to incorporate these four pillars of F-L-I-P in practice:
Flexible Environment: Create adaptable learning spaces where students learn on their own terms, whether individually or in groups.
Learning Culture: Shift classroom instruction from a teacher-centered to a student-centered model, where classroom time is dedicated to exploring topics in-depth and fostering peer interactions.
Intentional Content: Critically select and use content that develops students' critical thinking skills, conceptual understanding, and procedural fluency.
Professional Educators: Teachers become more agile guides. They foster student growth through continuous observation, assessment, feedback, and reflection on their practice and instruction.
Flipped Learning comes with a number of benefits, let's find out below to know more about it:
Personalized and Active Learning: Allows for personalized teacher support and feedback during in-class activities, promoting active engagement and deeper understanding of material versus passive listening to a lesson in a traditional setting.
Collaborative and Independent Learning: Encourages students to collaborate on projects and assignments with their peers in class while fostering independence by allowing them to study at their own pace at home.
Flexible Learning Modalities: Accommodates various learning styles, from visual to auditory, making learning more effective and inclusive. It's especially beneficial for those with learning disabilities, ensuring every student can thrive in the classroom.
Tailored Teaching: Pre-assigned activities provide feedback about students' understanding, allowing you to focus on necessary concepts and adjust your in-class teaching accordingly.
Despite its numerous benefits, the flipped learning approach has its fair share of challenges. Students need to take on the responsibility of prioritizing their schoolwork independently, which can be daunting. Additionally, there’s a risk that every group work may not have robust learning discussions.
We also risk a deepening digital divide for students without reliable internet or personal devices at home, and neurodivergent students may need more accommodations outside of school.
Despite these challenges, with proper preparation and understanding, Flipped Learning can still be a valuable approach that suits each student’s learning style.
Use Bloom’s Taxonomy to organize pre-class and in-class activities effectively. Focus on foundational concepts outside class and higher-order thinking during class time.
Communicate pre-class activities students need to complete and their benefits.
Save time by repurposing online resources like YouTube videos, study guides, worksheets, etc. Choose topics strategically and utilize digital tools like Quizizz to create engaging pre-class activities.
Keep pre-class activities concise, engaging, and relevant while providing clear instructions and listing time commitments for each activity. You can also consider in-class flips to negate the challenges of access to personal devices at home and accommodate students with learning needs. This approach involves introducing pre-class content during class time to ensure comprehension.
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Follow up on the activities during lesson time with a quick review activity, reflections with open-ended questioning, group discussion, and other hands-on activities. If students struggle to understand a concept or spend extra time on a particular assigned activity, you can include them in your instruction for in-class time.
You can do in-class flips or pair them in groups with student champions who have completed them to promote collaboration and peer-to-peer learning.
Overall, be prepared to tweak and alter the approach in response to student feedback and your own observations of how flipped learning works best in your classroom. In conclusion, flipped learning can be an excellent pedagogy tool for classroom instruction and learning repertoire.
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