Good evening all! This will be the first of a series of blog posts about the flipped classroom. I admit when I first started learning about this model of teaching, I didn't fully understand it. I can now see that it's sound practice and can be truly beneficial to our students, which is why we do everything we do!
Jonathan Bergmann and Aaron Sams, authors of the book, Flip your Classroom, met while teaching chemistry at Woodland Park HS in Colorado. While troubleshooting how to handle students who habitually missed class due to sports, they came upon the idea of recording their lessons. From that starting point, they developed and fine tuned the flipped mastery model. This allows for greater personalization because students can work at their own pace. The overall message of this book is that flipped classrooms should be done because it's better for the students. It's not done because someone thinks it's the latest and greatest innovation. This model can be implemented in any content and any age level.
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