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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

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Is your complaint about one school and one teacher?  I can believe regardless of instructional method, that some teachers are disconnected.  But your sweeping statements are disingenuous at best.  This isn't how flipped classrooms work, nor is it how project based learning works.  If either method is utilized correctly, they provide more teacher support as the teacher can and does move from group to group guiding the students and answering questions all along.

Did you talk with the teacher(s) directly? The principal?  I have seen your generalized complaints on a few thread, but no specifics, so I can only guess you just don't like the idea of these methods, but haven't truly seen them in action....[/quote]

Yes ... of course we spoke directly to the teachers and administrators. Their responses were the same. They said this is the future of education across the country and in Fairfax County in particular. Those of you who are buying into Flipped Classrooms and Project Based Learning models are buying into theories and not best teaching practices. They look better in therory than they function in practice. In practice long-term work is assigned and between that point and collection of the assignments the teachers punch out disconnecting from the students because they a no longer required to teach. They essentially show up in the morning and then hang around for several hours waiting for the day to end so they can leave.

People who ascribe to Flipped Classrooms and Project Based Learning are believing in educational theories not educational practices which actually work.

Communism, Laissez Faire Capitalism, Flipped Classrooms, and Project Based Learning all appear pretty good on paper and in therory, but all are horrible in practice because they each fails to take human nature into consideration.

Stop Flipped Classrooms and Project Based Learning NOW!!!

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I am finding it an odd conversation, that you had with the principal and teacher.  You stated your reasons for not liking it, which I can only hope were more specific than you have described here, and they simply said, "it is the future of education"?  Was this one year, one child of yours? Or have you seen this same misuse of flipped classroom and project based learning with another teacher? Truly, I have never utilized flipped classrooms because it seemed like more work than typical.  Having to video tape all lessons that were previously taught in the classroom, trust that technology would work, then spend the day working with small groups is beyond what is normally done....video taping would obviously occur in the evening, taking away grading papers time....so now that gets squeezed in elsewhere. The teachers I have seen you have used this (only two out of hundreds...meaning no others are doing it like you are claiming) are the hardest working teachers in our building, and are always working directly with the kids...never sitting at their desk, never ignoring questions.

You had a bad year with a teacher instructing your child...but it isn't these methods, it was the teacher.  And as stated before, lazy teachers existed decades ago and now, regardless of instructional methods/fads are utilized.  [/quote]

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