Why I started teaching

A problem and a question

How do you know that your students are learning?

How does one convert a course from a traditional model to a flipped learning model, in a sustainable way?

Time / energy / sanity / learning effectiveness / student happiness

A day in the life of a flipped calculus class

What makes this flipped learning and not just a flipped classroom?

Direct instruction relocated to pre-class

Class time focused on creative applications

Class environment is flexible

Class culture is focused on learning

Course content is intentional

I act like a professional educator

See: http://www.flippedlearning.org/definition

Why would someone flip a class?

Lecture less effective than interactive engagement (Hake, 1998)

Student learning in flipped instruction matches or exceeds learning in traditional instruction, exceeds in student engagement (Bates, Galloway 2012)

Lower student stress levels (Marlowe 2012)

Students in flipped instruction become more open to other teaching techniques (Strayer 2012)

Some pedagogies enabled by flipping effectively eliminate the gender gap in student learning in STEM disciplines (Lorenzo, Crouch, Mazur 2005)

But we don't necessarily need the research to tell us this.

(Re:)Designing class: The pre-class experience

Goal for flipped learning:

The key ideas:

Provide stucture

Provide boundaries

Make it low-risk

Provide rich set of high-quality resources

The model of Guided Practice

(Re:)Designing class: The in-class experience

Goal for flipped learning:

The key ideas:

Focus on Advanced learning objectives

Connect explicity to Basic learning objectives

Have alernatives ready for outlier students

Observe and collect data

(Re:)Designing class: The post-class experience

Goal for flipped learning:

The key ideas:

Focus on Advanced learning objectives

Connect explicity to Basic learning objectives

Think minimal

(Re:)Designing class: Follow-through

Goal for flipped learning:

Ways to do this:

Building in data collection opportunities

Collaborating with colleagues

Exploring social media and the internet

Presenting at conferences or to your department