While the article Flipped Classrooms Are Here to Stay was very interesting and had a lot of good points, I wasn’t completely sold on the idea of flipping my ELEMENTARY classroom. This may would work better for a college class, but in elementary classroom I would prefer the traditional based classroom.
The article says there are lots of benefits. Two that did not flatter me was it was good for tech savvy students and from keeping to have to re-teach lessons. You can teach a lesson and incorporate technology without having to have the students watch the whole lecture in their own time. Yes you can rewind or pause the tape as many times as they need to, but unlike the traditional approach some students do not come to class prepared to learn. This is just like teachers saying “Read chapter 3 to be prepared for the next class meeting!” I’m willing to bet that more than half of those students do not read the chapter. While I am not in love with the idea of flipping the classroom I do see a few benefits. There is more time to answer questions, have one-on-one help, and bad behavior decreases.
The fact of the matter is the students are still the same students in many different classroom settings. Meaning being in a flipped classroom where there are more time for discussion and questions does not make students who are shy or not as interactive in the classroom suddenly become active. However, I think through good classroom management that all of these benefits in the article can be reached.
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