Bridging Technology and Literacy

Why?

• The flipped model places focus on students’ practice with concepts and provides more time for teachers to work with students one-on-one or in small groups during class time. 

• Students engage in more collaborative and student-driven activity, creating an engaging learning environment.

• Bring parents in on the action and provide them with a closer look at the topics their children are studying.

• The type of learning that a flipped classroom promotes can readily be connected to the Common Core State Standards to promote students literacy skills in K-6 education. 

What?

• Flipping a classroom refers to positioning lecture as an out-of-class activity and homework as an in-class activity

• Flipping one’s classroom involves creating lecture-based videos or digital presentations for students to view and learn from that would typically be a part of in-class instruction and then engaging students in reinforcement and practice activities in class that are traditionally reserved for homework.  

How? 

Tips for Flipping

• Read as much as you can on the subject. 

• Visit Twitter to search and find teachers and other professional development organizations who post and write about flipped classrooms.

• Find another teacher at your school or who teaches in your grade level who is also interested in the flipped classroom model. 

• Provide parents with literature on or a presentation about the flipped classroom at an open house or orientation. 

• Solicit feedback from parents.

• Solicit feedback from students. 

Please refer to Chapter 10 for more information