Flipping Your Classroom A Quick Tutorial

Why I Flipped My Classroom

• Frustration….– Not enough time to finish a lesson– Students not completing the homework I was

assigning them– GIVING NOTES = BORING (for me and the kids)

History of the Flipped Classroom

• Jon Bergman and Aaron Sams – 2006• Salman Khan – Khan Academy 2006 or 7

What does a flipped classroom look like?

PBS News Hour

- Engaging- Project Based- Student Focused and Individualized

Pros and Cons

• Cons– Not every child has access to the technology– Student Motivation– Time Consuming– Not for everyone

• Pros– Student directed learning – individualized– Classroom time is freed up – Once you make the video you are done!

How to Flip Your Classroom

• Understand what’s already available– You Tube– You Tube Teachers– Teacher Tube– Vimeo– Khan AcademyActivity: Investigate – Find a video for your content area and evaluate – Content? Production Quality? Appealing to kids?

How to Flip Your Classroom?

• Make your own videos– What makes a good video?• Mr. Zoller

1. Make your presentation2. Screencast – Jing– Screencast O Matic– Camtasia ($$)

How to Flip Your Classroom

3. Manage your class online – CONSTANT Formative Assessment• Edmodo• Socrative • Slideshare• Edline – If your school uses the software

What do you do with all of your free time?

• Differentiate• Class discussion• Project Based Learning – Real Life Real Audience– 1.What am I teaching and to whom?– 2. Why am I teaching it?– 3. How am I teaching it?– 4. Why am I teaching it that way?– 5. What evidence will I collect to show my kids are

getting it?– 6. How will my students know they are getting it?