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-I'm Aaron Sams and I teach science
here at Woodland Park High School.
My ultimate goal, I guess, as a teacher is to help
students become learners who can learn
for themselves and by themselves.
One of the problems that I was guilty of,
even prior to flipping my classroom around,
was the classroom was centered around me.
I told them exactly what to learn, how to learn it,
what assignments to do to learn it, and when to learn it,
and how to prove to me that they learned it.
I don't do that anymore.
We changed the place in which content is delivered.
Instead of standing in front of a class
and delivering-- here's how you do this type of problem,
here's how this worked-- I deliver
that direct instruction now asynchronously
at home through these videos that we
make with Camtasia Studio.
-Times [? till ?] whole.
-Oh, we didn't do that last time.
-Because the last step, they were already whole numbers.
We had one, one, and four.
Here, we don't have a whole number.
So here's a few little tricks when
you need to multiply by whole numbers.
If one of your numbers ends in 0.5,
you're going to multiply by 2.
-All right, something-0.5 times it by two.
Write this down, guys.
-If something ends in 0.33 or 0.66, you multiply by 3.
And when the kids come to class, they don't show up
to learn new stuff, they show up to apply the things that they
learn at home and to ask me questions
about the things they learned at home.
So now they can have my lesson, if you will.
What I would normally have stood up
and lectured to them in class with some added features,
they get that at home.
And then what they were expected to do for homework
is now what they do in my class.
Life is different for me, because I no longer
am the guy who stands up in the front of the classroom
and just yaks at a student for an hour
or however long the class is.
Now, I walk around the class and I help kids.
I'm a tutor, I'm a guide, I'm the putter-outer
of fires, whatever it happens to be in my crazy chemistry class.
I walk around and do that, I don't stand up front and teach
under the traditional model.
I'm Aaron Sams.
I'm a teacher.
I'm a dad.
I'm a husband.
And I love Camtasia Studio.