Here are some practical ideas for you to introduce the concept of ‘flipping the classroom’ and encourage independent learning.
by Peter Thomas.
Here is a guide to some practical ways to Flip the Classroom to improve student progress. I hope you find it interesting, useful, and want to lend your expertise to make it even better.
Step One: What Is A ‘Flipped Classroom’?
The Definition: The ‘flipped classroom’ inverts traditional teaching methods by facilitating learning outside of the classroom and moving “homework” into the classroom. It empowers the student in the classroom and gives them the opportunity to make rapid progress in lessons. Quite simply, the teacher acts more like an adviser than a lecturer. It lets the students have a more hands-on approach to education.
5 ‘Flipping’ ideas!
• Post all of your teacher resources on Showmyhomework so students can review the full context of the lesson. Students can then review lessons anytime, anywhere on their personal computers and smart phones, reserving class time for in-depth discussions or class projects and save on re-cap time.
• Get students to organise themselves in to a film crew. Give them clear success criteria and a time line for completion of the project outside of the classroom. Time the finished learning to coincide with an appropriate place your scheme of work. This works well in helping students to unpick challenging areas of a specification as well as building a learning mind-set across the groups.
• Students and teachers can create ‘ Hot seat ’ videos. This can work well if there is a back-and-forth conversation. One example of this is where the teacher or student plays the role of mentor while the other plays the role of learner.
• Use 15-minute YouTube videos and where students take notes in preparation for an assessed piece of work. The videos, could be made by staff, fellow students or appropriate revision or learning sites such as Ted Talks. Students can then use class time to share what they have learned or go over with staff that are freed up from for additional one-to-one time.
• Create a ‘Flipped’ learning mat so that students are guided in their learning outside of the classroom.
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