The Flipped Classroom: Early Experiences

1. The Flipped Classroom: Early Experiences Catalyst Charter Middle School Ripon, WI Backchannel todaysmeet.com/catalyst

2. Catalyst Charter Middle School • Opened fall 2012 • PBL curriculum and approach • 3 themes: • Digital citizenship • Green futures • STEM • Creating…Communicating… Collaborating…

3. Brian Bennett- The Flipped Classroom is a mindset, not a method • Aaron Sams - There is no such thing as THE flipped classroom

4. Flipped Lessons are not: Flipped Lessons are: • Just videos • An online class • Replacing teachers with videos • Students working without structure • Students working alone • A means to INCREASE interaction and personalized contact time between students and teachers • An environment where students take responsibility for their own learning

5. Benefits of Flipped Lessons • A classroom where students who are absent due to illness or extra-curricular activities such as athletics or field-trips, don't get left behind. • A class where content is permanently archived  for review or remediation. • A class where all students are engaged in their learning. • A place where all students can get a personalized education

6. 5 Styles of Flipping Video introduces topic, class time expands on it Video interlude introduces a problem or a challenge Video introduces homework Video prompts reflection Students teach with video

7. Goals of the Flipped Lesson Create an engaging, interactive environment that is student- centered. Make the best use of your face- to-face time with your students. Focus on deeper meaning and connections, not just basic rote memorization and practice. Practice, application, and working with content is done inside of class.

8. How did we begin? • Started with the end in mind • Kept it simple • Connected, connected, connected • Used other available resources for videos

9. To Introduce a Project

10. To Model a Strategy during a Project

11. Reading Strategies Recorded on an Ipad

12. Video Resources Ted Ed Khan Academy

13. Sceencasting Tools – PC/Mac • Jing: http://www.techsmith.com/jing.html • Screencast-o-Matic: http://screencast-o-matic.com/ • Screenr: http://www.screenr.com/ Sceencasting Tools – Ipad • Educreations - http://www.educreations.com/ • Explain Everything http://www.explaineverything.com/

14. Screencast Storage • Vimeo

15. Learning Management Systems Wikispaces Edmodo Google Sites

16. Webquests

17. Flipped Faculty Meeting • Podcast of directions for groups • Wiki used to share information

18. Flipped Faculty Meeting Google Docs/Collections "Innovative learning requires that you trust yourself, that you be self-directed rather than other-directed in both your life and work." Warren Bennis

19. Resources • Catalyst Charter Middle School • (http://catalystcharter.wikispaces.com) • Resources for Flipped Lessons • (http://catalystresources.wikispaces.com) • Pinterest collection on Flipped Lessons • (http://pinterest.com/stampcat2/flipped-classroom) • Catalyst Charter Middle School Blog • (http://catalystchannel.blogspot.com) • Contacts: • Tom Hoh – hoht@ripon.k12.wi.us • Sandy Wisneski – wisneskis@ripon.k12.wi.us • Tim Scottberg – scottbergt@ripon.k12.wi.us