Overcoming problems in the flipped classroom

Updated: Apr 21, 2021

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Tips to overcome some hurdles and blunders that commonly happen in flipped classroom

Access

Make sure your students can assess the content

◦Some students might not be able to access the internet at their home

▹Get some flash drives, check them out to students

▹Burn the videos content onto DVDs

▹Get a set of digital devices that you can check out to your students

Watch

Make sure to teach your student how to watch a video:

▹How to interact with the video content in a meaningful way that causes them to reflect and think

▹Differences based on the maturity of the kids

▸What they are ready and prepared to learn

▹Length of the video

▸1 and 1.5 mins per grade level

◦E.g. grade 4 (4-6 mins) grade 10 (10-15 mins)

▸Keep it short

Safeguards

Build in some safeguards to make sure all students are actually watching the videos

▹Notes

▹Embedding google form to collect data

▹Post a question in the video and bring the answer of that question as an entrance ticket into class

Perfection...?

Don’t feel the need to make your videos perfect

▹Sit in a room with good lights

▹Have nice area to work

▹Don’t have distracting background

▹Have something nice and simple

▹Teach naturally and organically, speak to the students in a way that’s meaningful to them

▹Make the videos as effective content-delivery tool

Start small

Don’t try to do too much all at once

▹Flipped class is scalable

▹A lesson, a unit or a whole class

▹Start small and figure out what’s the best place to flip

What you should flip for a lesson?

▹Something that your kids struggled with

▹Embedding google form to collect data

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