Flipped Instruction

Kenny McCarthy

Flipped Instruction

• Don’t change what you normally present, instead just change where you present

• Take the theory, it becomes the homework in the form of videos created by you to be viewed by the students at home

• Take the homework you usually assign, and it becomes the class activity

Cell phones make it easy to flip a classroom

Flipped Checklist

Whiteboards / MarkersApp #1: Edmodo: create a group for the

students to joinApp #2: YouTube: you need an account to

upload to your contentA willingness to “put yourself out there” on

the web in the form of 5-15 minute instructional videos

Benefits• Students get to pace themselves through the use

of pause and rewind – great for students with IEP’s

• Students ask more questions in class during activities

• Teachers don’t have to repeat as much• Maximize 1-on-1 time circulate during classroom

activities set in cooperative learning groups rather than lecture in the front of the classroom

• Students out sick? No excuses!

Common QuestionsHow do you check homework?• Low-tech solution: Count the notes as the homework grade; the

notes must be line for line what was on the whiteboards in the video

• High-tech solution: Create an edmodo or ASSISTment assignmentDoes it really work? • Try it as an experiment, YMMV• Students will be more interested in seeing videos made by their

teacher than videos made by Khan AcademyWhat if a student claims to have no computer access at home? Send them to the Math Assistance Center (MAC), open until 3:30PM, Monday-Thursday, 2:45PM on Friday

In Summary