Flipped Classroom Settings
(Class time is used for interactive engagement, lectures watched as homework)
Typical Learning Environment
A studio-style classroom is ideal (tables with 4 to 9 students), but it can also work in a traditional theatre-style classroom. Similar to: POGIL, Scale-Up, Laboratory Classroom, Blended Learning.
What Do Students Do?
Students work in groups on challenging activities or carefully sequenced questions that can help them build conceptual understanding or problem solving sophistication. Two examples are provided in this section.
What do LAs Do?
LAs circulate around the classroom listening and observing groups as they work through context-rich problems.
Large, mobile, dry-erase boards (see below) are helpful for making students’ thinking visible to LAs.
LAs also try to get students into discussions about the problem with one another.
LAs engage students in Socratic dialogue, not giving answers; instead they ask probing questions that can help lead students move into productive discussions.
Materials Needed
Guided-inquiry based activity documents or sets of well-sequenced questions that allow students to articulate, defend, and modify their ideas. For examples, see:
Large (1 meter × ¾ meter), mobile, dry-erase boards are useful for students to build ideas, work problems, and modify ideas collaboratively as a group.
Videos of lectures must be made available to students through YouTube or other video-sharing media.
screencasts, pencasts, or vodcasts to supplement or augment or replace the lecture.
The Numbers
LA to Student Ratio
1 LA per 20-25 students
Hiring Needs
1 LA per 20-25 students
Coordination with Other Course Components
Generally, Flipped Classrooms involve intensive problem solving in class. Thus, outside of class there can be different types of learning that LAs can facilitate. Homework can either be done at home, or in the classroom where students can work together.
Variations and Suggestions
Flipping a Classroom is very labor intensive in the beginning
Proficiency with technology is key, as it will be the primary way professors are directly conveying content knowledge.