Should You Flip Your Classroom? By Ramsey Musallam summed it up it perfectly, "The flipped classroom is a simple concept that needs no title. Good teaching, regardless of discipline, should always limit passive transfer of knowledge in class, and promote learning environments built on the tenants of inquiry, collaboration and critical thinking." I think education spends too much time looking for the "right way" to teach in today's classroom. I think we need to keep our eye on the target, our students, and remember that good teaching comes in many forms. I feel we need to integrate many teaching strategies into our daily lesson to keep our student's focused.
I am always looking for new and innovative ideas for my classroom, this doesn't mean I am giving up direct instruction. Flipgrid and Adobe Sparks are two new APPs I have tried in the classroom. However, only having two hours of teacher/student time a day and ELA curriculum to teach, I have had very little time to fully use this programs. I would love to fully implement these two APPs into my PBL planning day on May 21st for my new 3/4 classroom next school year. As I plan for next year, I am thinking about using videos integrated with Performance Tasks to prepare for CAASPP testing. If I can integrate videos into Benchmark or Bridges lessons, I feel students can truly benefit from this new innovative way of teaching and learning. Barriers I see.... TIME! With a combo class and two curriculums for every subject, I feel I am going to need to be as CREATIVE and INNOVATIVE as ever!
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Rian
4/23/2018 06:56:42 pm
You got this! Combos are the best, and I know that you will rock it! I agree, good teaching, is just that- no need to dress it up and call it something different. I hope you are able to look into edpuzzle, as it has really helped me with some teaching, dare I say flipped activities.
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Marisabel Olguin
4/23/2018 09:35:20 pm
You can definitely integrate videos into the readers in Benchmark. Some of the readers can be boring. You can link videos into the reader before you assign the readers to the students and then it will be there for them to access. I am really enjoying using different flipping tools but I am also running into trouble because I have to keep up with grading all the work that just appears in my drive after my students finish their assignments. I guess my class is not just flipping it's also making my head spin!
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Scott Marsden
4/24/2018 05:56:06 pm
Heather,
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Jeff Albertazzi
4/24/2018 07:03:05 pm
I agree good teaching is good teaching and we shouldn't make good teacher's change the great things they are doing.
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Diana Olguin
4/25/2018 04:11:22 pm
I appreciate how honest you are when it comes to the lack of Time to accomplish everything you would like to do for your students. I think using video integration to teach difficult tasks will go over well with your future students.
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