Flipped Learning flipped learning is changing teaching and learning because we are really personalizing the learning for the students to me flipped learning means Anytime Anywhere learning where you are cloning yourself or some of the lessons that the students might need to have all of my students came in to my classroom at a different point of their learning yet when I was up in the front of the classroom teaching everybody was learning the exact same thing on the same day so with flipped learning I could put my students in smaller groups and instead of being the teacher up in the very front of the classroom having everybody learn the same thing at the same time what you’re doing is you’re taking the direct instruction moments and you’re putting it into individual moments what my teammates and I did is we decided to do three to four minute videos on some of our –power standards or the things that we knew the student students needed to know in that unit so for example in my class is teaching fifth grade writing my students struggled with their there and there and if I was correcting that paper and I had 27 papers to correct or look over I would just correct it for the students and hand it back and they would change it and there really wasn’t any guarantee that the next time that they did that that they would use the correct version I started thinking that there could be a lesson that was videoed three to five minute lesson that the students watched and then if they had some sort of activity afterwards I would have an idea that maybe there was some learning that happened so I took a lesson that might have been for the whole class and put it into an individual moment where the student was doing it just when they needed it and when you’re working in a flipped environment when you’re using videos to clone the teacher they could pause me I think that they could rewind me and they could really kind of take that at their own pace to review the learning that was happening in the classroom Get Started I think the best way to start with flipping your classroom is to just get going find a video that matches some sort of curriculum or standard that you have and have this kids review that video and talk about it afterwards and you could use it for pre teaching pre teaching allows the students to come in with little information for what you you want them to know in class you can create videos or even use videos that are already out there that other people are publishing there’s a lot of content educational content out there that we don’t have to be the creators of videos so if you find something that helps you teach the lesson or the content that you need to you could just use that and start building some links or resources on your website one of the things that we did in my school district is we made an entire collection of all of these little screencasts that our teachers were making and it was accessible to the parents and it was accessible to the students 24 hours a day a big question that a lot of teachers will ask if they are gonna start flipping their classroom is how do I know that the students watch the video and so providing some sort of activity or feedback allows the teacher to then see if they’ve learned what some of the students thinking is about after they’ve listened to that video sometimes the students didn’t have access to the Internet at home so I had to make my classroom available for them to be able to stay late coming early you know use other parts of the class day what we did is if there was ever any sort of digital assignment whether it be on the computer or involving a screen or a flip or watching a video I would never have it do the next day making sure that your videos are accessible on mobile is really important when you’re working with different student populations too because a lot of the students and our families do have digital devices that can connect they don’t have internet access at home now bigger hurdle when flipping your classroom is the most boring thing is watching somebody read bullet points off of a presentation and a lot of the times when teachers get to videoing themselves they sort of turn into robots and there’s absolutely no interaction so when we were creating these videos or narrating in screencast we just asked the teachers to have a little interaction to be themselves be friendly introduce themselves so that the video isn’t like a robot you know in reading some instructions that anybody could read on their own when you’re teaching Individual Experience the same lesson to the kids every day you might not know each of the students as personally or as individualized as you would know in a flipped classroom knowing what they need specifically and what they need to be retaught or where they could move ahead and they could really kind of advance and enhance their learning when you are doing flipping you’re creating the individual experience with direct instruction but now you have all this opportunity for community experience you have this opportunity for one-on-one teacher experience smaller groups people doing different things at the exact same time it will night look to the outsider a little bit more messy but what it is is it’s more individualized and personalized for the student and winner there and meeting them where they’re at you just have to try it once and get that into your classroom and you’ll be you’ll be surprised in a really great way about the students and how they’re able to learn
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