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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"Flipped Classroom" methodology is an unmitigated disaster when practiced in the classroom. Imagine students viewing videos in the evening about math and science concepts in which they have never once before been exposed, then in the next class they are immediately given problems to solve without any further instruction. "Flip Instruction" is pure pedagogical madness. Theoretically, the teachers are circulating around the classroom helping students solve these problems, but this does not occur. Part of the program is to have the students solve the problems themselves. Secondly, students are reluctant to admit that they need help, and finally if they did admit they needed personalized attention the teacher could not possibly help that number of confused students in a single class period.

The "Flipped Classroom" is the absolute high water mark in fad teaching methodology.  It's also a great gig for teachers. All they need do is to create one set of video lectures and then for the rest of their careers they'll only have to show up to class and answer a few questions.  Flipping Classess only creates classroom environments where teachers place greater learning demands on their students while increasingly disengaging from the teaching process themselves.

When teachers disengage in the classroom it is interpreted as apathy by their students.  When teachers fail to demonstrate passion for the material they teach it is nearly impossible to motivate students to strive for excellence. [/quote]

The above rant is completely ridiculous and the PP has no idea what he/she is talking about.

I am a teacher and while I don't use a flipped classroom approach, I know of several teachers who use it successfully.  Plenty of teachers will assign reading on a topic that hasn't been covered in class yet in order to expose students to it prior to the lesson.  This is a similar approach, except instead of reading out of a textbook, students watch a lecture.  This does NOT mean that the teacher does NO whole class instruction ever again.  It gives teachers an opportunity to give more FOCUSED whole class instruction, and also leaves more time for teachers to work with students individually.  If anything it allows teachers to be MORE engaged with their students during class time, not less.  Also, this is one tool in the toolbox.  To use this approach exclusively would be practically impossible.  There's more to a math class than sitting around doing problems.

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