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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"Flipped classroom"? don't assume all know what you're talking about.

DD started doing real well in math when she adopted the approach of reading a chapter ahead. She had read the chapter and was able to ask her questions when the teacher taught it. Is this what the hubbub is about?[/quote]

Flipped Classrooms reverse the order of learning. Instead of teachers introducing, explaining and reviewing new material in the classroom. Then reenforcing it with homework in the evening, everything is reversed. New materials are introduced to students in lectures the students watch on their computers via YouTube for homework. Then the following day work which traditionally would have been done as homework is done in class without any additional teacher instruction. Students are told to raise their hands if they need help, but the students are reluctant to admit they are clueless to the extent they can't even ask intelligent questions so the kids just sit and suffer in their ignorance.

It's a ridiculously failed experimental teaching method used in Fairfax County Public Schools. [/quote]

In reality, the teacher is able to provide more support to students in this scenario.  Rather than teaching, and giving the kids homework, and then checking homework and moving on, with flipped classrooms the teacher can spend class time working with small groups or even one on one with any kids that didn't understand or need help.

Teachers don't ask kids to "raise their hands" and just sit back. They go from group to group, student to student, looking at their work on whatever activity or project is taking place and provide lots of support as needed.  It may be that this one teacher didn't quite do what she was supposed to do, but the flipped classroom premise actually provides more teacher support than traditional lecture, homework, lecture....[/quote]

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