You will have moments in teaching when you want to flip your desk across the room, Hulk-style. You will have moments when you never want the lesson to end.
My first student teaching assignment plopped me down in a class of seventh graders who, on a good day, would bark and moo because that’s funny! A bad day included a lot of tears and defiance, which made more sense to me because, hormones. When my teaching assignment was complete and I transferred to a high[…]Continue Reading
The concept of a flipped classroom is becoming quite the buzzword in schools this year, and after talking to several teachers, we can see why. Teachers are finding that sending students home with a videotaped (or audiotaped) at-home “lecture” that explains a difficult concept reserves valuable class time for guided practice. And while the idea[…]Continue Reading
Teachers, what are your thoughts on the flipped teaching trend? (If you don’t know much about it, here’s a previous blog entry we wrote on the topic.) We have to admit, we get excited about the idea of reserving class time for hands-on projects, discussion, and collaboration and saving reading and lectures for outside of[…]Continue Reading