World History
- Flipping, Flipping, Flipping!
All three of my preps this year are being flipped so I am really getting into it which is good after four years of practicing the "craft." Today we are having a tech in-service at Hayfield Secondary where I teach and I am teaching two sections...
- School On A Snow Day
I will admit that I can't get away with this with all of my classes, but my AP Comparative (which is AP US Government and AP Comparative in one year) is a motivated bunch. So while today is our second snow day (actually a "cold day" since it is 5...
- Flipped Learning And Differentiation
Believe it or not the NYTimes has an opinion piece advocating the Flipped Classroom. But it is the quasi flipped classroom which I use a lot in our combined ESOL World History I class (which is a ESOL and standard education students combined in...
- If You Flip, Read This
Caitlin Tucker, a Google certified English teacher, in this excellent post suggests that flipping can be about more than videos. She also wishes that the conversation " focused more on what actually happens in a flipped classroom." She thinks there...
- A Webinar On The Flipped Classroom
Thanks to the head of social studies in my county, Alice Reilly, who gave me the heads up on this which she found on Eschoolnews which is a daily e-mail for people interested in technology news. On Tuesday, March 20 from 2:00-3pm ET there...
World History
A Quasi Flipped Classroom
Like Frank Franz, I?ve done a lot of research on flipping the classroom. I?m trying it for the first time this week in my AP World class with a short lecture on the causes of World War I. I linked the screen cast on Blackboard. The idea is that this will give me more time in class to do more hands on learning or delve more deeply into the lecture topic. For example, I might ask the kids to rank the causes and defend their ranking.
But I wonder if history classrooms are already flipped if we don?t do much lecturing in the first place. The reading gives the kids the same content as a podcast lecture. Here?s how someone on a flipped blog explained it: ?But in history, if you are assigning reading for homework then they are already doing the content at home. And if you are doing discussions or other work in class that makes them grapple with what they have read then your history class is already 'flipped'.? I agree but I also think that few kids in history really read the text and process what they read so discussion in class or activities designed to get the kids to grapple with the content often don?t work so well. I?m hoping that short screen casts might help. Indeed, I just got an email from a student who said the video was "super" helpful, so maybe this is a great way to go.
- Flipping, Flipping, Flipping!
All three of my preps this year are being flipped so I am really getting into it which is good after four years of practicing the "craft." Today we are having a tech in-service at Hayfield Secondary where I teach and I am teaching two sections...
- School On A Snow Day
I will admit that I can't get away with this with all of my classes, but my AP Comparative (which is AP US Government and AP Comparative in one year) is a motivated bunch. So while today is our second snow day (actually a "cold day" since it is 5...
- Flipped Learning And Differentiation
Believe it or not the NYTimes has an opinion piece advocating the Flipped Classroom. But it is the quasi flipped classroom which I use a lot in our combined ESOL World History I class (which is a ESOL and standard education students combined in...
- If You Flip, Read This
Caitlin Tucker, a Google certified English teacher, in this excellent post suggests that flipping can be about more than videos. She also wishes that the conversation " focused more on what actually happens in a flipped classroom." She thinks there...
- A Webinar On The Flipped Classroom
Thanks to the head of social studies in my county, Alice Reilly, who gave me the heads up on this which she found on Eschoolnews which is a daily e-mail for people interested in technology news. On Tuesday, March 20 from 2:00-3pm ET there...