the flipped classroom podcast what does the flipped classroom look like
presented by Jeffrey Anderson and Larry Hess from Ohio University learning
objectives after watching this podcast you should be able to remember and
understand some of the characteristics of a flipped classroom two methods for
structuring class discussion and how class participation changes with the
flip model first let's look at the traditional classroom where students sit
passively and listen to the instructor the sage on the stage as he or she
delivers course concepts via lecture the flipped classroom looks much different
the flipped classroom instructors work actively with students students work
collaboratively in pairs or in teams to solve class problems to apply concepts
in the flipped classroom it's much more active and much more engaging much more
noisy and much more interactive than the traditional classroom it helps if we
take a look at understanding today's college students Mark Prensky coined
the term digital natives those who have grown up with technology born from 1981
to 2000 technology has been an everyday part of their life this is important in
terms of how these students expect to be engaged in the classroom and outside the
classroom
let's look at some characteristics of a flipped classroom first students
typically reach higher orders of critical thinking moving from the
remembering an understanding domains to application and analysis the flipped
classroom provides the opportunity to give course material context by applying
it to real-world situations in the flip model students take ownership of their
learning and can use material and use their knowledge to lead one another
during class and perhaps most importantly
the flipped classroom transform students from passive listeners to active
learners collaboration is at the heart of in-class activities used in the
flipped classroom one common method of promoting discussion in class is to use
the think pair share technique this technique requires that the learner
first consider individually questions raised by the instructor then students
are paired with their classmates and given time to discuss these questions
together finally the questions are shared with the class as students are
called upon to answer by the professor another way to engage students with
discussion is a technique called numbered heads together in this
technique students are formed into teams of three to six they then count off in
each team members assigned a number
the instructor then poses a question
students put their heads together and discuss the issue so that everyone on
the team knows and understands the answer and then the instructor calls on
students my number to answer the question for the class we've all
experienced situations where only a few students talk in class and some students
talk so much that they prevent others from speaking in class discussions are
out of balance students feel excluded from the Class one way to maintain
balance is to call on students by name
regularly during the term in an evenly distributed way keeping track of who you
called upon allows this balence to be achieved in this model class
participation goes from voluntary to mandatory and instructor can use two
types of questions when calling on students first as the warm call method
where the instructor will identify students who will be called upon later
to answer specific discussion questions the intent of the warm call is to
motivate students to be prepared to answer their assigned questions
Assigned thoughtfully and to get support from their peers as they prepare also
instructor should use cold calls where they call upon students to answer
questions without prior knowledge these cold calls provide an incentive for
students to think carefully about the issue as there is always a possibility
they will be called upon to answer in class summary in this podcast we
reviewed some characteristics of the flipped classroom the think pair share
and numbered heads together methods for structuring class discussion and class
participation including warm calls and cold calls