Flipping the Classroom. By Cynthia J. Brame, CFT Assistant Director Printable Version “Flipping the classroom” has become something of a buzzword in the last several years, driven in part by high profile publications in The New York Times (Fitzpatrick, 2012); The Chronicle of Higher Education (Berrett, 2012); and Science (Mazur, 2009); In essence, “flipping the classroom
This article was interesting and gave a great look into the flipped classroom approach. This article shows that flipped classrooms is aligned with Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy, pushing students to engage in higher-level cognitive activities like application, analysis, and synthesis in class while they consumed information at the lower levels outside of class.
The four key elements in a flipped classroom mentioned in this post were: 1. Exposure prior to class, 2. Incentive for Preparation,3. Mechanism for assessment, 4. In-Class Higher-level activities.
The flipped classroom model’s adaptability, focuses on higher-level cognitive skills, and evidence-based efficacy and this I believe makes it a compelling approach to use in my teaching.