‘Flipped’ teaching
Do teachers need to be the font of all knowledge or does the internet provide us with access to more information than we could ever hope to know? The idea of the ‘flipped’ classroom is one that makes a lots of sense: pupils watch videos or presentations to get information at home/ in own time and use class time to engage in discussion/active learning tasks with the teacher as guide, facilitator and mentor. This could be the future of learning and it’s not all that far away…
Check out this really nice video:
And here’s a teacher from England explaining how he started out on the flipped model adventure:
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Flip teaching is a form of blended learning which encompasses any use of Internet technology to leverage the learning in a classroom, so a teacher can spend more time interacting with students instead of lecturing. This is most commonly being done using teacher created videos that students view outside of class time.
The traditional pattern of secondary education has been to have classroom lectures, in which the teacher explains a topic, followed by homework, in which the student does exercises. In flip teaching, the student first studies the topic by himself, typically using video lessons created by the instructor[2][3] or shared by another educator, such as those provided by the Khan Academy. In the classroom, the pupil then tries to apply the knowledge by solving problems and doing practical work.[4][5][6] The role of the classroom teacher is then to tutor the student when they become stuck, rather than to impart the initial lesson. This allows time inside the class to be used for additional learning-based activities,[7] including use of differentiated instruction and project-based learning.[8]
Flip teaching allows more hands-on time with the instructor guiding the students, allowing them to assist the students when they are assimilating information and creating new ideas (upper end of Bloom’s Taxonomy).[9]
