World History
For the first 24 years of my teaching career, I have had my classroom in a U shape an idea I took from my 10th grade English teacher. The thought was to facilitate discussion in the classroom. This year, though, I am trying a new idea. I am using a much smaller desk so that I be out of the way and my students will be seated in groups of four. While I do use the front of the room to bring context, with flipping, my students are doing much more work on their own (or in groups) while I move around the room to check for understanding and to see if they need help on what is being done. I am curious to see how this set-up works.
If you want to change your room, here and here are two ways to lay out your room to see if it will work for you before you move the actual desks.
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World History
What Shape Will Your Classroom Be in this Year?
If you want to change your room, here and here are two ways to lay out your room to see if it will work for you before you move the actual desks.
- Changing The Face Of Instruction
I am a member of several Facebook teacher sites and am in the midst of adding to one where a teacher said his administration has banned front of the room teaching. A number of the teachers are saying how awful that is. Truth be known I have...
- Countdown Timers
Richard Byrne and I were teaching our third of three technology for the Social Studies classroom today when a teacher asked me how I keep my students on task in a flipped room. One trick I mentioned is countdown timers projected on the front of...
- 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...
- The Blogs Make The News
Here is a nice newspaper story on our three blogs. Frank Franz, George Coe and I are all featured. Thanks to all of you for making them such a big success. Keep the e-mails and the hits coming. The picture is actually from my...
- My View On The Future Of Education
Last week the Alliance for Excellent Education (which is the inspiration behind Digital Learning Day) asked me to write a blog post for them. If you care to read the entire post go here where I have a number of links to items my students have done...