This week in the Teacher Tip series, we'll be taking a look at the flipped classroom. Now, the flipped classroom is simply an ideology that allows us to utilize a lot of educationaltechnologies to help push student achievement. We're going to break it down into three steps. One, what is the flipped classroom? Two, how can I modify my current lesson plan?And three, where can I find additional resources? Let's go ahead and dive right in with understanding what exactly is the flipped classroom. For most teachers in a traditionalclassroom environment, when students come to class the first thing they do is get introduced to a new content.

And then, the second half of class we reinforce that concept to help the students master it.This typically takes place through a variety of extension activities. We have small group, or projects, papers, and even worksheets and problem sets. And then, to help reinforce the content, we send homework home with the student. In a flip classroom, these two elements are actually going to flip. The homework is going to become the introduction to the new content. It happens before the class that deals with that particular subject, not after. Classroom time then is 100% dedicated to active learning experiences Where students dive into the content.

And you the teacher come along side the student to help them master it. Now that seems very simple in practice, but can get fairly complex when we start breaking down exactly how it plays out in our classroom. When it comes to the students, there's a lot of benefits to the flip classroom model. First off, it focuses on active learning during class. The student takes their passive learning of watching you present the material, and they do that at home. Furthermore, we find that students that don't complete homework are more likely to watch a video. Or do something that's passive learning.

One reason that students don't complete homework is they don't understand the homework.In a flipped classroom, if the student doesn't understand the homework they can simply watch it a second time. The flip classroom also allows for more one on one time with the teacher. So if a student is struggling with the concept and they come to class, instead of being one of 30 students listening to a presentation. They're immediately involved in group work, where they can get peer to peer assistance, or they can seek out help from the teacher one on one or in a small group. It will also help increase differentiated learning.

When students come to class they no longer have to sit in a lecture style format, they can go into a variety of group work or problem-based learning. And those groups are easy to differentiate based on skill level. This way, you the teacher can give the student exactly the environment they need to be successful. It also helps students become self learners at home.This goes back to the common core state standards of helping our students become college and career ready, and the flip classroom also transforms your class time to be 100% student-centered. So instead of starting class with this very teacher-centric model of us talking to our students, we get to flip it around, where students are the one teaching themselves and teaching others.

Research has shown us that this student-centric model really pushes content mastery. And even though the flipped classroom is really beneficial to students, there's also some great benefits to teachers. For example, it's going to increase student mastery of content. I know a lot of teachers that are really worried about state exams. The flipped classroom's really going to help you the teacher put your expertise on helping students master content. Another benefit to teachers is less time preaching and more time teaching. What I mean by this is educators are going to have the ability to work one on one with students to help them master content.

So instead of just being the teacher in the front of the room who is talking. Actively seeking out what students need, reflecting and adjusting your practices to meet the needs of those students. This will also allow you to increase your one-on-one interactions with your individual class. You can build deeper relationships, understand your students better, and ultimately know what your students need in order to be successful. If your entire class is group work, you're going to quickly come to know what students work well together. How to differentiate your class to get the most out of your group work time. And there's also thousands of lessons already online.

There's no need to reinvent the wheel. Now, later on, we will talk about how you, yourself, can create online resources to send to your students if you can't find the perfect lesson. But we're also going to explore a variety of ways that you can quickly find a lesson that your students can watch at home. Now that we have a general concept of what the flip classroom is, and how it's beneficial, let's take a look at how this plays out in our lesson plans.

Once we have a basic understanding of what the flipped classroom is, the next question to ask is, how do we modify our lessons? As teachers we have hundreds of lessons that we've already created, and so adapting a new philosophy of how we teach can seem somewhat overwhelming because of the fact that we now have to go in and change all this work we've done prior. The reality is, is adapting a current lesson to becoming a flip lesson plan, is actually fairly simple. Let's go ahead and take a look at a very common breakdown of a gradual release lesson plan. Typically, you have some kind of introduction to content.

In this particularly gradual release module, we have some introduction in content. Followed by a guided practice. Then, we release the students a little further, to some group work. And then finally, we get down to the independent work, which is often our assessment. And then, to help push mastery of content, we assign an extension activity that takes place outside of class as homework. To take this particular lesson plan format and make it a flipped classroom, all we have to do is re-evaluate what happens outside the classroom. We're going to shift everything up one spot so that the introduction of content happens outside of class, and it happens prior to the class.

Then when students get to the actual class, we're going to have guided practice, group work, independent work, and possibly even an extension activity based on how much time we have available now in our class session. I'd like to also show you how this looks on an actual lesson plan. Here in Microsoft Word, I have a lesson plan that I've used in my actual class. This less plan is for the nervous system and it's for part of my body systems unit. The objective is fairly simple, that I want my students to be able to describe how the brain and nervous system interact with other body systems. As we scroll down and look at this lesson plan, we can see right away that it's a flipped lesson plan.

I can tell, because of given myself a note that prior to class students will have watched the assigned YouTube video and completed their focus group readings. Focus group readings are actually a way that I differentiate my flipped lesson plans. Throughout my body systems unit, students have various focus groups. Each focus group receives an individualized reading that's appropriate to the students in that particular group. As I look at the lesson agenda too, you can see that there is no room for introduction in new material. Right away when my students come in, I have a brief catalyst which is an engagement activity.

We then dive right in to exploration, which is applying the outside learning we had. We have a group extension activity. I leave room for some individual work, which also frees me up to do some one on one work. And then I help my students transition to math by graphing out some brain activity. This is also going to help my math teacher make some real-world connections with what they are currently working on. When I look at the lesson elements, the engagement's really simple. My students are watching a two minute video clip from The Water Boy, where the professor argues about what makes crocodiles angry. For the exploration which the students should be into within the first five to seven minutes of class.

They're going to start right away working in teams, making a list of everything that they know about the brain. They can use their articles, they can use what they saw in the video, and then each team is going to start adding, using the Promethean board for entire group collaboration.Once we feel that the entire class has a pretty good idea of what the brain does. We're going to go ahead and use Mind Meister to create a class collaborative mind map. Each team will have a computer. They will log into a pre-created Mind Meister board, and they will add their own ideas. This way we can capture the learning of the students in a single place.

And then students can continue to access the Mind Meister any time they want to be reminded of what the brain does, and how it controls various body systems. As I scroll down further, the explanation section of this lesson plan is only for students that require more help.During class time, if I have a student that is completely lost, or it's very evident that they were not able to complete the prior to class instruction, I'm going to pull them to the side and give them an online, interactive brain model and a guided note sheet that they can do in class. Not only is this a benefit for students that maybe showed up unprepared, but if for some reason you're flip lesson plan isn't going well I can always bring the whole class together, use a Promethean board to do the class interactive model, and basically turn this into a traditional class.

That's always a nice backup plan just in case your students are not adapting well to the group work environment. So, this time, we've gone through and taken a look at how we can adapt our current lesson plans to be a flipped lesson. Essentially, we're going to take our introduction to new material, and find a way to move it outside of the classroom. The next question we need to tackle is what resources are available to us. So that we can move the introduction of content outside of the classroom.

Now that we know what the flipped classroom is and how to restructure our class time and homework, the next question to ask is where can I find resources that my students can use prior to class? There are several ways to approach finding resources. The most common way is to use online videos. There's a variety of free things out there that we as educators can justspend our time searching, reviewing and picking a tool that's going to work for our students.YouTube, Khan Academy, BrainPop. All of these video services allow us to simply tell our students the link or video name, and trust that they can go home and access them.

All of these online video services such as Youtube and Khan Academy, allow students to simply go home, look at the video we've assigned, and watch it. If your district has access to a paid service, such as BrainPop That's another great way to keep students engaged outside of the classroom. It doesn't just have to be online videos though. Any online content, or honestly any content at home that students can use to gain the knowledge, will be appropriate. I love Learner.org because they have online interactive modules that students can work through.Webpage content analysis is another great way to get students thinking and engaging with content outside of the classroom.

I'll literally assign a webpage or two and ask students to go home, to review the webpage, to analyze the content, and maybe even ask students to analyze conflicting ideologies between various webpages. You can also upload PowerPoints and send home notes. This way, students can go to your blog, download your PowerPoint presentation, and work through the content at their own pace. If you're unable to find an already-created online resource, the next step would be to create your own content. This is actually easier than you think. There are several ways to do this. The most popular way is to do a screencast.

What you're watching right now is a screencast. There's some software available, Jing being one of them that's absolutely free that will allow you to quickly create screencasts.Screencasts will capture any action that takes place on your monitor as well as your voice.Quicktime's another one that's free for all Mac users and Camtasia costs money but gives you a lot of control as an educator, even the ability to embed a quiz in the end of your screencast.Once you create a Screencast, you can use a free service such as Screencast.com or YouTube to upload your video to the internet.

And make it available for students. Using a blog is another great way to keep students up to date on what content you'd like and have them access it outside of the classroom. if you don't have a blog as a teacher then a few places to check out are Wordpress.com and edublogs.org. These are both places that you can quickly establish a free blog and start adding content to it so your students can access that content outside of class. Podcasts are a more simplified way to get information to your students. These are typically just audio. And you can record the audio on anything. Even most cell phones today have the ability to record audio.

You can then upload the podcast to something that has an RSS feed, such as your blog or podcast service. Once you have the podcast in the feed, you can then submit that feed to the iTunes library. This is a really hand thing for our students, because so many of our students have iPods, iPhones or iPads. Once your podcast is in the iTunes library, students can quickly download that information to their device and they have instant learning on the go. Right now, I'm going to quickly show you one place that's a great starting point for finding online content.Youtube actually has its own educational channel, which can be found at youtube.com/education.

Here, there's a variety of videos that are actually categorized by content area. For example, if I scroll down, I can see if there's Primary and Secondary Education, University, LifetimeLearning, there's even videos for Science and Engineering, Social Studies, the Social Sciences, Humanities, History, Mathematics, Business, Arts. Law, Education, Medicine, and even Languages. Typically, when I'm trying to find a video for class, this is the first place that I check. I just pop on to the Youtube Education Channel, and quickly search in the top bar to see if any keywords from the content I'm teaching them come up.

I recommend reviewing all videos to make sure they're appropriate for your class, as well as teaching the content that you want to teach. Often you'll find a variety of videos for your particular subject and so you'll have to take the time to move through the videos to figure out which one's going to be best for your students.

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