- How can we provide highly effective instructional support in the classroom?
- How can we respect teacher's time and provide meaningful staff meetings?
- How can we provide differentiated and continuous professional development?
- Provide staff with differentiated PD
- Create online professional academy
- Use electronic resources
- Staff views personalized PD (on demand)
- Discuss in PLCs
- Staff learn at their own pace.
- Staff can rewind, replay, take notes, pose ?'s.
- PD is archived for later review/discussions.
Accountability with anything flipped?
Teachers: Flip one lesson before the end of the year!
Principals: Flip one staff meeting before the end of the year!
District Admins: Work with building principals to create a flipped PD series. ex. How to for technology usage.
Nicholas Diaz, Lead Learner
Diaz@frelinghuysenschool.org
- Respects your time and your staff's time.
- Provides opportunities for meaningful discussion.
- Models an instructional practice.
- Models risk-taking.
What's the best tool/resource for flipping?
Class Environment
Creates an interactive/engaging/dynamic classroom that becomes truly student centered.
Teacher Benefits
Differentiation/
Student Support
Remediation
- Meet individually with students on a daily basis.
- Work with small groups of students.
- Revisit concepts/skills students have not mastered in a individualized forum.
Learning
- Students can learn at their own pace by rewinding, pausing, & re-watching videos.
On-Demand
- Students can access their classroom content anytime, anyplace, and anywhere they want.
No more worrying about...
- Lessons being taught too fast.
- Getting stuck on homework without support.
- Boredom.
- Forgetting about past material.
Home Sick?
21st Century Skills
- No need to worry about students getting left behind.
- Students can access the instruction at home.
Students will engage in...
- Media
- Information
- Technology
- Collaboration
- Communication
Flipped Classroom Examples
Class Structure
Instructional Strategies
(inspired by UDL;
informed by neuroscience)
Begin with Do Now
5-15 minute activity
Review "Things To Do:"
Listed on board
Populated by calendar
from Google calendar
and Sites
Students make academic choice
Teacher facilitates with mini-lessons,
small group assignments,
individual check-ins, tutorials, etc.
1. Do Now's
2. To Do Lists
3. Teacher Tutorials
4. Student Lit Groups - character, conflict, theme/motif, plot, etc
5. Small Groups - mini-lessons, research/writing workshops, peer to peer tutoring
6. Blendspaces with assessments - teacher and student authored
7. Individual academic conferencing
8. Flexible everything! due dates, tasks, strategies, etc
9. Independent Study
10. Homework
11. One-to-one technology
Project Based Learning, Including Research;
Creativity Referencing Reality
Blendspace
sign in
Blendspace Assessments
app launcher
gmail
drive
sites
calendar
https://sites.google.com/a/sayrevillek12.net/mo-mahoney/
classroom
Flipped Meeting
Typical Meeting
- No agenda items per se. Working on a problem.
- No need to "lecture" content received electronically already.
- One or two items are discussed (problem solving) at a deep level.
- Meeting ends with delegated tasks/action plan.
- List of agenda items.
- Spend time lecturing.
- Many items discussed at a surface level.
- Meeting is adjourned "till the next contractual meeting time".