Why I Flipped My Classroom

For more information on how to flip your classroom (flipping the classroom) go to: http://fi.ncsu.edu/fizz
To view answers to frequently asked questions go to Katie's YouTube playlist: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=...
Katie is an 8th grade math and Algebra 1 teacher at a public school in Raleigh, NC.

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[eliselovatic]

I wish u were my teacher

[mainerblainer1]

i SO wish you were my teacher XD

[Dennis Higgins]

I'm so happy people are starting to see the value of this way of running a class. Don't you feel better as a teacher! There's a tributary in adult ed (where I am) that started going down this progressive road but got lost along the way. What was meant to be student mastery turned into their completing a stack of worksheets. You CAN do this kind of ed w/o video (just books) and w/o computer testing (just a fast TA). I started doing it for math in 88! Keep enjoying your class!

[codextraordinary]

What he might have been talking about is how she set up the classroom in her diagram. If she set up the advanced kids at one table and the struggling kids at another, people would notice. The kids at the struggling table might feel insulted, and the advanced kids could develop a superiority complex, although I assume she set it up that way just for visual purposes, and in actuality would mix it up.

[Thomas Dodson]

Useful stuff- interesting ideas.

[Joe Emmet]

Katie (I hope I got your name right), I think this is going to make a tremendous difference for my middle school daughter (I hope our school district adopts this approach for my eldest daughter's high school).

My wife read a book on Japanese K-12 education. They cover about 40% of the concepts we do in a given year. What they learn, they have down pat. My girls teachers have all said there just hasn't been enough time in the classroom for application.

This should do the trick. THANKS!!

[ArmisVideo]

I've see the school system 'flip' the responsibility of teachers teaching the students to teachers and parents teaching the students; now you want to flip it yet again to students essentially teaching themselves with teacher support.

If it works better than the current system, I'm ok with it.

[cryogeneric]

The more and more I think about this the more it makes sense.

[PeeteyP]

Show me.

[carrotsaresuperheros]

Kids aren't stupid. In my experience when you pretend everyone is equal and they all know that they are all different then you have bullying issues. They think that because it is made secret there is a problem with it. When you acknowlege that everyone is different and you make it ok to be different then the kids are ok with it too.

[toontownsecretagent0]

my thing is 'struggling' ; ; not enough info from my teachs so im homeschool unless I, yes ME, say that i wanna be in public school

[Jeremy Evans]

I believe the flipped classroom pedagogy would be most effective in a classroom comprised of academically serious students, such as those in an AP class, but it would not work in a classroom with students who do not care about education in the first place. Why entrust great academic freedom to those who would squander it?