Flipped Classroom
What is a flipped classroom?
A flipped classroom is a teaching model in which scholars watch lectures and review notes individually either at home or during designated study time at school. Ideally, this would mean that scholars are already familiar with the lesson at hand when they enter the classroom for the day. This allows teachers to dedicate more class time to assisting scholars with guided and independent practice assignments. Homework or other advanced independent practices, which are typically done at home in a traditional classroom model, are completed under the guidance of the teacher in a flipped classroom. Although it may not be the right fit for everyone, the flipped classroom model may provide educators with more opportunities to manage classroom behavior, and to identify scholars who may need additional assistance.
The following resources were carefully selected to help educators who are interested in trying a flipped classroom approach to teaching.
Helpful Blogs and Articles on Flipped Classrooms
The writers at Edutopia.org have compiled a series of in-depth articles and tips on flipped classrooms. Click the link above to check them out, and browse some of the many other teaching resources this site has to offer.
Educator and author, Jon Bergmann, offers readers his insight and ideas regarding the flipped classroom approach to teaching in this highly informative blog.
This blog reads like a journal, and gives readers a glimpse into the classroom of a high school math teacher who successfully flipped her classroom. It provides great insight, tips, and things to consider for any teacher considering this teaching approach.
Find podcasts, technology tools, articles, and other tips to help you implement a flipped classroom with this interactive site.
Reliable Supplemental Content
The purpose of this site is to allow educators to create digital lessons, and to store lesson content in one convenient place. However, teachers may also browse existing lessons created by other educators.
Discover inspiring lectures on a wide variety of topics to share with your scholars.
Users of this site have free access to hundreds of lessons on mathematics, science, arts, humanities, economics, engineering, and computing. Educators may sign up for an account and assign work or lessons to their students in just a few simple steps.
This site offers many short videos on a wide variety of science topics starring Bill Nye. Most of the videos are short, but they’re definitely worth adding to an occasional lesson to mix things up.
Spice up your science lessons with some help from the Magic School Bus team. All of these videos are available in Learn360.
Find reliable, educational videos in a flash with Learn360. Educators can search by standards, topics, or keywords. You can always trust a video on Learn360 to be appropriate for your classroom.
This site provides hundreds of live and prerecorded virtual field trips which you can access right from your very own classroom. It is free for all CCSD educators. Simply use your CCSD email to set up an educator account.
Presentation and Recording Tools
Are you bored with PowerPoints? If so, give Prezi a try. It may take some time to learn how all of the Prezi features work, but it will be time well spent. Prezi offers users with a wide variety of visually interesting presentation graphics and templates.
This site offers free access to screen and voice recording tools. Deliver lectures from right from your own home by using this amazing tool. Just make sure that there’s not too much background noise while you’re recording.
Screencastify is another great screen and voice recording tool. If you’re a Google Chrome user, this is the tool for you.
Google Slides offers appealing slide templates and quick sharing options for your presentations. If you know how to use PowerPoint, you’ll know how to use Google Slides.
Use Playposit to create videos that your scholars can interact with by inserting assessment checks and thought-provoking question bubbles.
EdPuzzle is free for educators, and allows you to add knowledge checks and quizzes to just about any video recording.
To access the free version of this presentation creator site, select the individual, basic plan. Users can preview templates before they take the time to register for an account which is a nice time saving feature.
Content Organizers
Use Pinterest to organize your ideas and lessons in handy, easy-to-use online boards. Users can upload their own content or pin content uploaded by other users. This is a great tool to keep visual learners organized.
Flipgrid is a scholar favorite. Just about any lesson can be made more interesting by incorporating this tool. Create your own videos right from your computer and upload them to your Flipgrid wall, or have your scholars create videos of their own.
Google Classroom is an extremely helpful tool for creating a digital space to organize class topics, assign work, share resources, and send out reminders to your scholars. Use your CCSD email to create a free account today.
Padlet is another visually striking way to organize notes and links. You may also have scholars write on your Padlet wall to share their thoughts and ideas on particular topics. Overall, this is a great site to keep a class project or collaboration organized.
Popplet is great for creating word webs and mind maps to keep your ideas and lessons neatly organized. Your scholars will enjoy the fun graphics provided in this tool.
Do you want a less messy, paperless, way to store your notes? If so, Lino is the tool for you. It’s basically an online sticky notepad.
Assessment Tools
You can put just about any set of boring old questions into Kahoot and instantly make it more fun. Your scholars will love competing against their classmates, hearing the riveting background music, and racing the clock as they complete your Kahoot quizzes.
Quizlet is another helpful online assessment tool. Be sure to check out the flash card feature for an especially effective way to test your scholars’ vocabulary knowledge.
Use Quizizz to create your own quizzes, or access the Quizizz library to browse some fabulous resources that have been shared by other educators.
