World History
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World History
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 a few minutes in front of the room, but have mostly moved away from it. Consider today's lesson in my economics' class
- The kids watched a flipped video on graphing perfect competition
- We started with a quiz where the kids had to draw four graphs and could use their video notes.
- In my class I won't count the quiz unless the notes are acceptable and occasionally make them redo it - but I always let them redo it and always give full credit even if it is late and most of the work is turned in on time as the kids know I will call parents if 2 or more assignments aren't done in a two week period - and I rarely have to call!
- Then four different kids went to the board to draw the graphs.
- Next the kids worked on their problem sets.
- I walked around the room and answered questions from the previous day's work and the current ones.
- Oh I should say that my room is set up in 8 pods of four desks so the kids can easily help each other. Each group is set up with different levels of students.
- Should I add that we have not opened a book this year either so it is not only cost efficient, but videos are how kids teach themselves now.
- We took our second test of the year last week and my average score is up 10% over last year's kids.
- I use this format (flip video, quiz, interactive, walling around the room) in all of my classes now and wish I had figured this out years ago!
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