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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I observed my DC’s Honors Geometry class at Open House. This was a MS. It was not how I was taught math. There was no large group instruction. The teacher assigned a few things to do and then walked around the room answering questions. I thought it was really effective, and I loved how she answered the questions. She had a variety of strategies, depending on the question. If it was something she thought would be confusing to others, or multiple kids had the same question, she stopped and explained to the whole class. If a kid had an issue that another kid had just worked through, she’d have them work together so the one who’d just figured it out could help the one who was still struggling. I was impressed.  [/quote]

That works for some kids but not all. I would’ve hated that. I need someone to do a lot of examples before I try them on my own. I would’ve been highly frustrated in a class like this.[/quote]

I was only there one day, so that’s not to say that there’s never whole group instruction.  There also might have been sample problems worked out in the video lessons the kids watched. This was more in response to the PPs who said thei kids’ teachers ignored the kids during independent work time. [/quote]

Flipped classroom is perfect for someone who needs to see examples - you can watch them on video and repeat as much as necessary. [/quote]

I needed to stop the teacher as she/he explained it. You can't do that with a video. [/quote]

You can’t stop A VIDEO?

Actually let me redo that.

YOU can’t stop a video? Because my kid is in a flipped class and she does.[/quote]

You are not able to stop and ask questions to a video. You can replay it as many times as you want but [b]you can't ask it clarifying questions or ask for more information[/b].[/quote]

The asking questions parts occurs during the class portion of a flipped class. The kids frontload info or a skill at home and then have time in class to practice and ask clarifying questions. It works for most smart kids who watch the videos at home.[/quote]

This reminds me of reading a section of a textbook and taking notes or working examples before attending class.  (But, that was followed by a teacher presenting the same, adding insight, and answering questions.)  Anyway, it worked for the people who put in prep time, and it's not as if watching a video is more automatic.  If anything, it's easier to press play on a video, and not pay attention.  With a textbook it's often picking up a pencil, that commands focus--just watching someone else with a pencil may be no better than dozing though class unprepared, and it does take discipline to control the pace of a video, and work out a missed detail.

As with any learning style, flipped classrooms aren't for everyone.  Both my DCs dislike them.  The worst case scenario is the teacher, so bent on promoting self-teaching, that they deflect all questions and become condescending: [i]how many people have you asked before you came to me?[/i], or they run all their attention through pet students.  One MS teacher told me at conference, that DC should just always sit with so-and-so, [i]because she already knows all the answers[/i].  In theory, maybe (still a little bald-face to phrase it that way), in practice DC had a long history with that particular student, and to be officially under her thumb was a confidence killer.  Not to make too much of teen grousing, but some teachers seam to have trouble juggling promoting the flipped classroom concept and still providing support.  And providing support to a flipped classroom, ads an extra duty of monitoring social interactions.  Sometimes the pushy yet always wrong student wins the table.  Sometimes a student is subtly shunned.  There's sill plenty that can go wrong, just remember it's HS.  In most cases the teen who thinks the teacher isn't doing anything is just wrong, but perception is half the battle with teens.[/quote]

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