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=Hello Teachers!=

Have you heard about flipping? Let me explain . ..
In a traditional classroom, teachers use class time to deliver new content AND try to guide students through activities in which they learn to apply the new information. There's limited time for teachers to help students of different ability levels master the application before they are required to move on and repeat the same process with new content. Also, teachers spend time repeating the new content and concepts over and over again as students work toward an understanding.

In a flipped classroom, teachers prerecord the delivery of the new content and make the lessons available online. The students access the lessons outside of class at their own time and pace. This frees up class time for application activities. Now the teacher has time to work individually with students at different ability levels. The teacher can now be in two places at once - repeating information through prerecorded lessons for a struggling student and guiding an advanced student student to that lightbulb moment of comprehension.

Check out this explanation from experienced flipper Katie Gimbar.

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And here's an example lesson on the plot diagram that students would watch before applying the concepts in class.

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