By Bill Tucker
Main points
Bergmann and Sams stumbled across the idea of a flipped
classroom because they were struggling to find the time to reteach lessons for
absent students.
The advantages of it are the class becomes the place to work
through problems, advance concepts, engage in collaborative learning and
maximise the scarcest learning-resource time.
Bergmann was able to check their notes and required each
student to come to class with a question to think more deeply about the
content. He could easily query individual students, probe for misconceptions
and clear up incorrect notions. Bergmann also had the time to work individually
with every student. He quoted "I talk to every student in every classroom
every day."
He notes he now spends more time with struggling students
and advanced students have more freedom to learn independently. The new
arrangement fosters better relationships; there is greater student engagement
and higher levels of motivation.
Other teachers incorporating the method have discussed how
it poses a tremendous instructional challenge on how to explain a concept in a
clear, concise, bite-sized chunk.
However, the flipped classroom approach runs the risk of
being falsely pigeon-holed into one of educations many false dichotomies and can
be seen as another front in a false battle between teachers and technology.
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