Academic First Year Experiences

A Sensible Approach to Flipping Your Classroom

June 30, 2014

Here's a practical and quite short article from Faculty Focus with five sensible opportunities for you to flip a portion of your classroom practice: "Looking for ‘Flippable’ Moments in Your Class" by Barbi Honeycutt (25 Mar 2013). Excerpt:

"[S]ome topics lend themselves more easily to flipped strategies than others, but every lesson plan has the opportunity for at least one 'flippable moment.' This is the moment during class when you stop talking at your students and “flip” the work to them instead. This is the moment when you allow your students to struggle, ask questions, solve problems, and do the 'heavy lifting' required to learn the material." (Read more....)