The Flipped Classroom and What It Takes
Part of the new approach to learning is to lessen the one-way flow of information from expert to student, and for the expert to center on the learner. When the educator, as part of the designed lesson plan, deliberately chooses to refrain from using lecturing as the sole means of teaching, she can replace it with another powerful action: to hold the space of listening.1 This action inverts the traditional approach to education, creating what is called the “flipped classroom,” a term coined in 2012 by American chemistry teachers Jonathan Bergmann and Aaron Sams.2 They converted a lecture-based class into a participatory setting with a simple inversion. Instead of asking students to listen to lectures ...
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