EEND 678 Artifact #2

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Resource

          Flipped Lesson

Reflection

          I really enjoyed making the flipped lesson for this course.  I found it very useful for my content area.  With math, it would be difficult to have my students listen to something without having a visual, but it would also be difficult to post a visual without an explanation.

          Flipping my classroom would allow me to differentiate my instruction and provide one on one attention to my struggling learners.  The students could watch the lesson at their own pace and pause and rewatch the video as necessary.  They could also access the library of videos in order to review for quizzes and tests.

          I could also use a flipped lesson when I am absent.  The students will still be able to have quality instruction, and my classes wouldn’t fall behind.  With our school going one to one, using flipped lessons to guide instruction during my absence will be even easier.  I would post a link to Google Classroom, and my students would be able to complete the activity without much guidance.

          I could also have my students create their own flipped lessons.  When a student explains his or her reasoning, he or she will understand the material better.  Watching them explain a problem from beginning to end would also be very telling to see what they truly understand and don’t understand about the problem.  Watching a student’s process with him or her after he or she makes the video would help me show a student exactly where a mistake is being made, and we could also conference about where he or she could expand upon his or her explanation. 

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