Baugess, Sasha
Flipped classrooms making a
splash in American schools. (2012, October). Curriculum Review, 52(3), 2-3.
The article discusses the trend toward the flipped classroom in American schools, where teachers have begun sending lectures home with students to watch in the evenings so that they can dedicate class time to practicing what they've learned. This leaves more time for answering questions and clarifying anything that the students may be having difficulty with. It also allows students to take more time with the lectures, pausing and replaying sections that they don't understand.
This actually seems like it would be very effective. Students would spend the same amount of time at home doing schoolwork as they did in the past, but rather than struggling with an assignment only to turn it in incomplete the following day, this way they will have access to the instructor while they're working on it. It also allows them to work collaboratively with their peers in ways that may not have been possible when working from home.
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