Flipped classroom: Southridge High students learn lessons at home, do homework in class

Flipped classroom: Southridge High students learn lessons at home, do homework in class
Published in The Oregonian on March 25th, 2015
By Wendy Owen
http://www.oregonlive.com/beaverton/index.ssf/2015/03/flipped_classroom_southridge_h.html#incart_river

Something I've been interested in looking at lately has been flipped classrooms. They seem like an interesting twist on traditional teaching and in my research on it I found this recent article from the Oregonian. The article is about a high school math class taught by Katie Wilkinson at Southridge in Beaverton.

Wilkinson does all of her lectures on video and the students are responsible for watching those videos at home, taking notes, and answering about 4 questions in relation to the video. They then come to class and any questions they have about the lecture are answered by Wilkinson and they work on the homework part during class time. What I enjoy about this way of teaching is that students are able to pause and replay the videos if they need extra clarification. In high school I remember missing out on a lot of lessons simply because I the teacher was going to fast and I was too shy or embarrassed to speak up. I could see my young self benefiting from this type of teaching/learning and that's why I enjoyed the article.

This article is directed at educators and students. It seems that the opinions of flipped classrooms are either you love it or hate it. I'm not sure if it's something I'd actually practice but definitely find it interesting when thinking about how to reach a range of learning types.