Flipped classrooms: Turning learning upside down

Trend of 'flipping classrooms' helps teachers to personalize education

By Celia Baker, Deseret News

Published: Sunday, Nov. 25 2012 10:48 p.m. MST

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Instead of listening to lectures at school and doing problems at home, students in a flipped classroom watch videotaped lectures at home (perhaps taking notes or working sample problems), then work through problems and exercises at school. There, the teacher can keep students working, supervise pairs or groups of students as they work problems, and work one-on-one with kids who lag behind.

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Pete1215

Lafayette, IN

Midwest Mom has a point. If a student had 5 flipped classes, the expectation would be that the student would watch up to 5 hours of lecture at night, then attend school all day the next day, then up to 5 hours of lecture, etc. I would be surprised More..

9:05 a.m. Nov. 26, 2012
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West Jordan, UT

This, like so many other educational "fixes", works only if the parents are invested. Many are not. So this is another great way to lose a lot of students in the cracks.

9:12 a.m. Nov. 26, 2012
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Midwest Mom

Soldiers Grove, WI

All day in class. All night in lecture, at home, when kids are tired and need a break to play and enjoy enriching extracurricular activities. People who advocate for this have little idea about what children need and have little regard for the More..

7:57 a.m. Nov. 26, 2012
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