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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've been teaching in FCPS for 22 years. My DW has 8 years with FCPS. Neither one of us has heard much about or have been trained for either PBL or Flipped Classroom.[/quote]

Don't feed the troll. He had some bad experience in high school didn't get into Harvard and haunts the nova board batching about fcps pedagogy. [/quote]

Such ad hominem silliness attempting to divert the dialog away from the question as to are FCPS children being cheated out of a quality education and for thousands of children the answer is clearly an astounding YES!

Flipped Classrooms and Project Based Learning teaching methodologies are disconnecting teachers from their students. Students are expected to learn through independent study or from other equally uninformed students. Teachers assign Final Assessments at the beginning of three week units and then essentially punch out of the teaching process for the next several weeks. The teachers do not do much prep work themselves during those next several weeks and as a result are usually unprepared to answer even rudimentary questions about what the kids are working on. Every kid is working on something different because the only teacher input is a packet of papers and a final assessment date.

Different students are always at different places in the learning process. The students ask questions all over the assignment spectrum and because the teachers have not prepped for any particular lesson they don't have quality answers formulated right off the top of their heads. Rather than answering legitimate valid questions from their students the Teacher's responses are "you should know that answer from your readings" and then they walk away annoyed at the child because they were asked questions in which they were unprepared to answer.

After a while the students stop asking questions and the teachers stop venturing away from their desks and the students stop asking questions.

Dr. Garza is at fault!  She is aware that the failed experimental methodologies of Flipped Classrooms and Project Based Learning are being forced on students in FCPS and she has done nothing to stop it. Thousands of students are lost and confused and as individuals are being rejected by their teachers because they are being subjected to pop teaching methodologies like Flipped Classrooms and Project Based Learning. 
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