Flipping Their Classrooms without Being Flipped out

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What is Reverse Instruction? or flipped classroom?
When most people hear about the flipped class all they think about are the videos. Jonathan Gergmann and Aaron Sam, proponents of the flipped classroom, in The Flipped Class Manifest define it the following way:
“In most Flipped Classrooms, there is an active and intentional transfer of some of the information delivery to outside of the classroom with the goal of freeing up time to make better use of the face-to-face interaction in school.”
The flipped classroom is NOT a synonym for online videos.
“It is the interaction and the meaningful learning activities that occur during the face-to-face time that is most important."
Another flipped classroom educator, Brian Bennett, wrote a post explaining that the model is not about the videos, but about the learning.
“The flipped classroom is about making connections with learners and differentiating your instruction. If videos are a part of that multi-faceted plan, great. If they are not, still great. The flipped class is an ideology, not a methodology.”
What is the benefit?
"In this model of instruction, students watch recorded lectures for homework and complete their assignments, labs, and tests in class." therefore:
Flipped classroom (FC) has truly individualized learning for students, they can move at their own pace, review what they need when they need to, and the teacher is then freed up to work one-on-one with students on the content they most need support with. So class time can be used to have thoughtful discussions and Immediately correct any misconceptions.
The FC also empowers students to take ownership of their own learning, something that really needs to happen for optimum internal integration and mastery.
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...t have them give feedback via a google form. There are lots of ways to check student work.
Where should the video go in the instructional cycle? beginning, middle or end and make sure you think through where the video (or if a video) is best suited for a particular lesson.

I can definitely use the advice above for our elementary teachers who are interested in flipping their classrooms without being flip out.

What I learned that Flipping is not an ALL or NOTHING deal. Start small and build a library of resources for your students, not all content need to be presented via video and choose the appropriate time, content and reasonable goal to have student learn independently whether at home or in centres in the classroom. Again, this has to be about more than students watching YouTube lectures at home. Bad pedagogy is bad pedagogy whether it’s flipped or not.”

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