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Who does not want an easy life, the path of least resistance. \u00a0Passive lecture style lessons provides that opportunity. \u00a0A flipped classroom situation demands student involvement to succeed. \u00a0Yet to actually succeed in a lecture style requires student involvement as well. \u00a0The flipped classroom is designed to be more student centered and for (potentially many) different learning paths to be found that reflect the learning styles of those students.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>These are the internal arguments that I have been having and I recognise that the success of a truly student centered classroom lies with the motivation of the students. \u00a0So this has to be a key consideration. \u00a0I am in a good place though, I know most of the class from previous teaching experience and the ones I have not taught before are new to the school. \u00a0So I open with absolute honesty and in my first lesson I explain the concepts of the flipped classroom. \u00a0I even show them the Sal Khan video “How video can reinvent education<\/a>“. \u00a0To get the class reflecting on their own preferred learning styles I use the great “How do you learn?<\/a>” website.<\/p>\n

The first actual Physics concept which my standard level Physics class is uncertainty. \u00a0A topic which undoubtedly resonates with my own worries. \u00a0I have identified a number of choice\u00a0tools to consolidate their understanding and simultaneously experience the essence of the flipped classroom. \u00a0Whilst in class it is all hands on where we consolidate with an activity calculating density. \u00a0This works my one note to self is that I have to be really careful about the use of consistent terminology in videos.<\/p>\n

As we move forward I introduce my expectation that there is a need for evidence that you have indeed attended the flipped class outside of mine. \u00a0I ask to see notes relating to the key points which have been covered. \u00a0I explain that my intention is to promote the transfer of knowledge to consolidate understanding and this is also the evidence which will inform my own mark book. \u00a0The need for them to enter my classroom prepared to face questioning and discussion of misconceptions \u00a0on what they should have covered outside the classroom.<\/p>\n

The next couple of lessons seem to go well – all of the class having reviewed the content – although in reality much of this is a review of knowledge covered previously. \u00a0Then comes two lessons one day after the next and about 30 seconds into my starting knowledge review questions and it is clear that most of the class have not been able to manage their time effectively enough to be ready for this lesson. \u00a0For those that have I set up a table and support them through some consolidation questions. \u00a0For those that have not done anything I have a quick word and then shift their lesson task to a practical which was already in place – this is the joy of many paths, there is always something constructive to do.<\/p>\n

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Who does not want an easy life, the path of least resistance. \u00a0Passive lecture style lessons provides that opportunity. \u00a0A flipped classroom situation demands student involvement to succeed. \u00a0Yet to actually succeed in a lecture style requires student involvement as well. \u00a0The flipped classroom is designed to be more student centered and for (potentially many) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reverse-learning","count-0","even alt","author-neilcommons","last"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/neilcommons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/neilcommons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/neilcommons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neilcommons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neilcommons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/neilcommons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/neilcommons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neilcommons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neilcommons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}