Flip and Master a Traditional Chemistry Classroom

Scott Gundrum

Slinger High School

Chemistry

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3JyXb_lm2Zg

Anyone Attend the Preconference?

What does your class look like?

Time Class Size

What does your class look like?

Students Experiences

What does your class look like?

Homework Class work

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o

Solutions

• Time– No more wasted time

• Notes do not take much work

Solutions

• Students– Students are now responsible for their own

learning• Self paced

– Students are now more responsible for their learning group’s learning

• Peer pressure is sometimes a good thing

Solutions

• Size– Have more time with students who need it

– Students become tutors

Solutions

• Homework– Individualized homework

• Moodle system

– Curtail cheating• Each student gets different numbers or completely

different questions

– Allow mastery• Retake assignments or quizzes until 80%

Solutions

• Class work– Less busy work

– More labs

– More groups work

– More projects to apply knowlegde

Solutions

• Experiences– Time for application

– Time for more inquiry

The Answer, Part 1

• A flipped classroom– Some class work becomes homework

– All homework becomes class work

The Answer, Part 1

• A flipped classroom– Leads to more in class time for activities

– Leads to more individualized instruction

The Flipped Classroom is NOT:• A synonym for online videos. When most

people hear about the flipped class all they think about are the videos.  It is the interaction and the meaningful learning activities that occur during the face-to-face time that is most important.

• About replacing teachers with videos.

Source: http://www.thedailyriff.com/articles/the-flipped-class-conversation-689.php

The Flipped Classroom is NOT:• An online course.

• Students working without structure.

• Students spending the entire class staring at a computer screen.

• Students working in isolation.

Source: http://www.thedailyriff.com/articles/the-flipped-class-conversation-689.php

The Flipped Classroom IS:• A means to INCREASE interaction and

personalized contact time between students and teachers.

• An environment where students take responsibility for their own learning. 

• A classroom where the teacher is not the "sage on the stage", but the "guide on the side".

• A blending of direct instruction with constructivist learning.

Source: http://www.thedailyriff.com/articles/the-flipped-class-conversation-689.php

• A classroom where students who are absent due to illness or extra-curricular activities such as athletics or field-trips, don't get left behind.

• A class where content is permanently archived  for review or remediation.

• A class where all students are engaged in their learning.

• A place where all students can get a personalized education.

Source: http://www.thedailyriff.com/articles/the-flipped-class-conversation-689.php

The Flipped Classroom IS:

So that is nice, but. . .

• Does it increase participation?

• Does it increase authentic experiences?

• Does it increase learning?

• Was it worth the trouble?

The Answer, Part 2

• Learning for Mastery or Mastery Learning– Bloom coined the term in the late 1960s

• Students start at the same place, but may not end together

– Force the students to learn the material• Slinger High School uses 80% as the minimum for mastery

for class work and tests

• Also include all projects and the science notebook

• Students see answers for class work problems but not for test problems

– We encourage students to ask for help remediating

The Answer, Part 2

• Mastery– Change the game

• Points are now meaningless

The Answer, Part 2

• Mastery– Overall score matters

• An 80% on every assignment is the same as a 100% on every assignment so long as the same amount of content is mastered

Mastery

• Allow for enrichment for accelerated students

• Allow for more remediation for the struggling student

Mastery and Assignments

• Moodle is a great answer– Create problem banks with multiple equivalent

problems– Each assignment chooses a number of

random problems• Each attempt chooses a different random set

– Each numerical problem chooses a random number set from a predetermined table

• So each randomly chosen problem has randomly chosen number set

Current Moodle Course

• http://moodle.slinger.k12.wi.us/course/view.php?id=11

Past Moodle Course

• http://moodle.slinger.k12.wi.us/course/view.php?id=4

Problems

• Creating the course– Very time consuming

• Try to stay a couple steps ahead

– Do not recreate the wheel

Problems

• Changing the culture– First year had many problems

• Time• Parents• Students waiting until the last minute

– Keep motivation level high