One of my teachers came to me with an issue he was having in his AP Bio classes. With the AP testing schedule, many of the students in his class were going to be out for a significant amount of class time taking their other AP exams. Rather than re-teaching the material for his students or setting up after school sessions, he decided it was time to try and “flip” his instruction. We created a series of short videos and posted them on his WHS YouTube channel for all of his students to watch (especially if they were not able to attend his class). These videos will also allow students to pause, re-wind, and replay his lecture, adding that critical element of reinforcement. See link below for example.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U52hwQfSzIs
Creating these videos is actually quite simple.
1. Outline your presentation
2. Film using a smartphone or digital camera
3. Upload video file to YouTube
4. Post Youtube URL on Edline
**if you want to assess your students formatively, set up a Google Form with questions about the video or embed your video into Ed Puzzle (pretty good stuff!)
In the end, flipping your classroom certainly has a few distinct advantages:
More class time can be devoted to hands on student centered learning (i.e. discussions, projects, performance based tasks)
Buys time for AP teachers who are in a “rush” to cover material that will be on the test
Students can learn the content at their own pace
40 min lectures can be tailored down to 12 min
If you would like to explore this teaching and learning approach, I’d be more than happy to meet and discuss.
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AuthorAdam Pizzi an Instructional Technologist for the Westfield Public School System (NJ). He serves both Westfield High School and the two middle schools. Prior to his role in educational technology, Adam was a social studies teacher for 9 years. He has a masters degree in Instructional Media from Wilkes University & Discovery Education and is a Google Certified Educator. He believes that today's students need and deserve to take their learning beyond the content and into the 21st century. Archives
June 2015
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