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Flipping Your School’s Professional Development

Ed Tech from the Ground Up

According to research from online course provider Sophia Learning and the Flipped Learning Network , the number of teachers who have flipped a lesson has grown from 48 percent in 2012 to 78 percent in 2015. She reported that before flipping, professional development didn’t connect with teachers.

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How to Differentiate Teaching for the advancement of student Thinking Skills: Simplifying Approaches to Teaching & Learning Series (Part 5)

100mentors

I was confident that his report would be a good one until he asked me something like what measures do you take to support talented students? The answer to this riddle can be the “flipped classroom”. From the teaching point of view, the flipped classroom allows us to differentiate instruction in regard to our students’ abilities.

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How to Differentiate Teaching for the advancement of learner Thinking Skills: Simplifying Approaches to Teaching &Learning Series (Part 5)

100mentors

I was confident that his report would be a good one until he asked me something like what measures do you take to support talented learners ? The answer to this riddle can be the “flipped classroom”. In the flipped classroom, on the contrary, learners’ prior work is mandatory and strongly connected to the upcoming lesson.

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Competency Based Learning: How Flipped Mastery Makes CBL Possible

Turning Learning On Its Head

During the 2007-2008 school year, Aaron Sams and I pioneered the flipped class model of education. Though the flipped class model proved to be an effective strategy in which we saw increases in student achievement and engagement, we only did the traditional flipped classroom for one year.

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4 Models of blended learning to implement in the classroom

Neo LMS

In 2012 Heather Staker and Michael B. Horn, of the Christensen Institute, wrote a definitive report on blended learning taxonomies , that aimed to define the term “blended learning” completely and accurately. The definition below is a refinement of a previous definition suggested in their report “ The rise of K-12 Blended Learning ”.

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Education Technology and the Year of Wishful Thinking

Hack Education

” It’s been over a decade since comedian Stephen Colbert introduced the word “ truthiness ” on The Colbert Report – his attempt to describe political arguments, particularly those made by conservatives, that need no facts or evidence because they “just feel right.” Or the flipped classroom.

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Key Digital Skills for 21st Century Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

The first iteration of this list was published in 2012 and since then the list witnessed several iterations. They can be used in flipped classrooms or in blended learning environments. I am sure a number of other aspects are still lacking in which case I invite your feedback and contribution through email or social media.