Before this week I had never heard of the term "flipped classroom", and after hearing about it makes me wish that some of my teachers had done this. Though I know what you are thinking my reasoning is, but I have to tell you it's completely selfish. I think that this method would have helped with the wasted class periods of the teachers repeating the same information over and over again, causing me to get bored and tune out the rest of the lesson. I think that if everyone had watched/listened to the teacher, we could have got done a lot more of our work.
I do like the principle of the flipped classroom method, using class time for homework and practice, but I'm not sure that this is a technique that I want to apply to my future classroom- well not in its entirety. I think that using your videos for homework is a good idea for many reasons- students can pause and rewind, listen at their own pace, and they can listen to the lecture as many times as they need. However, how do you really know that students are watching these videos. I know you can make an assignment/activity to quiz them about the material and such, but let's be honest, how many times in high school did you not read the book and ask your friends that did for the important points and summary? Answer- a lot of us did many times. And then there's the issue of students not having the technology at home to watch the videos, even in DVD format; and if they watch them at school, that takes away from the activity time and most of them can't stay after school. I know that with everything there are positives and negatives, no technique is perfect, but the flipped classroom is not necessarily one that I see myself using a lot in my classroom. I'm not saying I might not use it occasionally, but not for my regular teaching.
One thing I like about this class is that we are learning new methods and pedagogy that we can apply to our own teaching one day. I also like that we don't have to agree with and use every technique we are being taught. Teaching is not a "one size fits all" kind of thing. I appreciate how we are being exposed to new things and are being given the opportunity to figure out if it's right for us.
*Sorry, I know this is a long one :)
I do like the principle of the flipped classroom method, using class time for homework and practice, but I'm not sure that this is a technique that I want to apply to my future classroom- well not in its entirety. I think that using your videos for homework is a good idea for many reasons- students can pause and rewind, listen at their own pace, and they can listen to the lecture as many times as they need. However, how do you really know that students are watching these videos. I know you can make an assignment/activity to quiz them about the material and such, but let's be honest, how many times in high school did you not read the book and ask your friends that did for the important points and summary? Answer- a lot of us did many times. And then there's the issue of students not having the technology at home to watch the videos, even in DVD format; and if they watch them at school, that takes away from the activity time and most of them can't stay after school. I know that with everything there are positives and negatives, no technique is perfect, but the flipped classroom is not necessarily one that I see myself using a lot in my classroom. I'm not saying I might not use it occasionally, but not for my regular teaching.
One thing I like about this class is that we are learning new methods and pedagogy that we can apply to our own teaching one day. I also like that we don't have to agree with and use every technique we are being taught. Teaching is not a "one size fits all" kind of thing. I appreciate how we are being exposed to new things and are being given the opportunity to figure out if it's right for us.
*Sorry, I know this is a long one :)