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Every day teachers are coming up with new ways to keep children interested in their lessons. Stacy Schmidt and David Ralph came up with the idea of "Flipping" the classroom. This includes that homework, inquiry, and investigation happens in the classroom. And at home students watch videos, PowerPoints, and complete readings.
After completing the preparation work, students arrive in class ready to solve problems, talk about the readings, and find solutions. Flipping the classroom is a fairly new idea in the education field as a strategy for better teaching. It has been used by teachers from elementary school all the way to graduate school. The real question is "Why Flip?" The term flipping comes from the idea of swapping homework for classwork (Ash, 2012). When students go home to work on homework, some of them have well-educated parents that can assist them with the work while others have parents that are not knowledgeable in the content and cannot assist them with their homework. Thus according to Ash (2012), students are able to return to class with the content and then receive assistance with the homework from the teacher during class time. The flipped classroom provides the students with in-class support for finishing work and provides more time for hands-on activities. Fulton (2012) also found that the flipped classroom causes “students to take more responsibility for their own learning”. Students also have access to the content at home so if they are absent due to illness they can easily catch up and do not miss out on important lectures.
I truly believe that the idea of flipping a classroom is the most sufficient way of teaching and I plan to participate in this when I become a teacher of my own. This idea benefits students not only by allowing them to work on time management but by holding them responsible for their own learning. I myself wish I was taught in this type of environment so instead of falling farther behind in a class because I do not fully understand something, but because then I could spend class time asking questions and have my teacher reassure what I was supposed to be learning and have it explained to me face to face to better my understanding.
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