3 keys to a flipped classroom
If you are planning to use the ‘flipped classroom’,
then you might want to think about a few key ideas.
Background:
Here, on Connected Principals, Jonathan Martin has written a couple posts on the Flipped Classroom. In his first one, Reverse Instruction: Dan Pink and Karl’s “Fisch Flip”, he says:
Increasingly, education’s value-add is and will be in the coaching and troubleshooting when students are applying their learning, and in challenging students to apply their thinking to hands-on learning by doing and
A New Educational DNA
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. ~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Innovation in education is a popular topic these days. Ideas about reforming public education abound–some advocating relatively minor adaptations to our current instructional practices, others, wholesale pedagogical changes. One thing that all seem to agree upon: if public education is going to be a viable solution for our students, change is inevitable.
Readers of my posts will likely deduce that I am an advocate of a much more dramatic approach to school reform, one in which we reexamine our current practices–questioning the purpose and potential of everything