Flip Your Classroom

By Jonathan Bergmann and Aaron Sams

Chapter seven and chapter eight

Enrique is an average student in every subject; however, he feels toughness in going through the math classes. Teacher comes in the class and solves some of the mathematical calculation. Teacher teaches in a commendable speed and the class ends up. When Janice comes at home, he is given the bunch of homework he tries to remember the formulae and apply it himself but he cannot because he is a weak student at math. There are no options for Enrique either to meet the teacher or ask about the same assignment or to copy from his friends. Will it be effective to copy others’ assignments without understanding the underlying meaning of any text? Will it be productive?

Janice is another character who goes through the same circumstances, miss last class of chemistry for her games and matches. How can she generalize the combinations of every soluble item in labs without getting sufficient information and knowledge, because she has missed the last class? 

Ashley is another student who bears the same fortune, goes through day by day presence in the school, but is still weak despite of daily presence. How can the representative characters like Enrique, Janice, Ashley and thousands of students get rid of the same problem?

Scenario on traditional method

From the decades ago till now, students are suffering on falling on classroom and hearing to the lectures passed by teachers and coming back to home after six to eight hours of sitting in classroom. With the assistance of blackboard, whiteboard, chalk, marker and other utensils, teachers pass one way information leaving the students inactive, if taken to discussion or forum some students can have discussion and others remain silent at back does not bring the splendid level of understanding about the course. Bringing homework, bunch of books and paper at school spending more time on doing homework and having no privilege to contact with teacher besides school hours cannot make students productive. What may be the solution that helps students and teachers to stand at the same forum exchanging knowledgeable contents being corroborative? 

Initiation of flip the classroom

Is there any solution to those students who are busy and is looking for the resourceful classes? Yes, acknowledging the flip the class can solve all the problems laid by traditional technique. How?

 With the advancement of technology, modern world is narrowed down in the small sphere needs smart work rather than hard work. 

 Teaching learning perspective has been changed slightly in which students centered learning has been proved effective.

 Videos, podcasts etc on the subject matter enhances makes students think multidimensional. 

 Learning aids personalization- facilitates more time to interact with each other, recorded classes can be viewed anytime, casts difficulties of understanding.

 At the end of session of any recorded class, at last students are assigned to do their assignment, students can submit their assignment online, eliminates more time consuming and bears more reliability. 

 Makes more resourceful.

 Eases teachers to have easy access over the students, and have new ideas by the sharing of grabbed ideas in both parties.

 Flipping helps busy students, those who cannot take the routine class, can view the recorded class and generalize own self.

 Flipping helps students to excel in results because it has no boundary of time and limit.

 Flipping helps classroom environment to be more cordial and interesting and fetches transparency. 

 Brings more understanding, by viewing the recorded stuff time and often, if occurred difficulty, it facilitates discussion with no time frame, brings more competence in students.

 Makes students more creative by viewing the recorded classes, can get prior information of any classes.

How to implement the flipped classroom

 Assignment in videos form- students can make video of certain matter on their assimilation.

 Acknowledgement of different gadgets like mobile, tablets, laptop, webcam, software, electronic whiteboard, microphone, slide changer, pointer etc eases on making, processing and posting of videos.

 Making concise, short, videos draw the attention of students, makes more curious.

The flipped classroom mastery

  Sharing information in a small number or individually, makes deeper understanding than the traditional one.

  Due to formative access over students can evaluate students’ understanding.

  Consistent observation and assessment to students leads to more activeness and those who are lacking mastery are given the reassessment. 

  Good and positive results, reformed results in every subject matter.

  Teacher as a mediator not as a dictator brings positive aspiration in students, do not take teacher as a sovereign body, by the sharing of knowledge in parallel degree the results means to be acme.

  Reducing the paper work, cuts off the burden in teacher feel relaxed.

  By presenting the presentations of any topic, students are found to be more energetic, technology friendly, studious with keen interest.

Implementation of flipped mastery model

Counseling with parents and replicating the proper model leads good productivity of students in learning. How to implement?

 Dragging and inspiring students to watch the same video at the beginning.

 Inform parents about the model and assure them.

 Teach students about the video making, editing, posting and absorbing the necessary knowledge.

 Asking questions to the students who do not view the contents through video, implementing proper assessment.

 Setting norms that there should be questions about the area of interest with respect to subject matter. 

In overall, flipped model is an effective model which has brought commendable changes in learning than the traditional lecture method. Due to easy access of time, cost friendly, technology friendly the model has been proved to be like games unlike teacher centered style.