Assigning Homework and Providing Practice:
The Flipped Classroom
The flipped classroom describes a reversed teaching model in which instruction is viewed at home through interactive, teacher-created video. "Homework” is then moved to the classroom. The posting of video lectures allows teachers to spend more 1:1 time with each student, giving students a greater opportunity to ask questions and work through problems with the guidance of their teachers and the support of their peers.
Benefits of this method include:
Benefits of this method include:
- It gives teachers more time to spend working directly with individual students
- It builds stronger student/teacher and peer relationships
- It offers a way for teachers to share information with a wide range of community members easily
- It produces students the ability to work through lessons at their own pace to strive for mastery of a topic
- It creates a collaborative learning environment in the classroom
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Teachers interested in trying the flipped classroom model can start small, using free, easy-to-use tools for creating and delivering contnent and measuring its impact. Listed below are some of the tools and links which can help you get started.