Lately I am really into flipped lessons. I liked building my background knowledge before attending seminars as a learner, but for some reason I never thought to do this for the learners in Team Explore.
We are fortunate enough to have some great media resources in our school, Discovery Education being a personal favorite, that make flipped lessons possible. I am also lucky enough to get to work with a great staff that would talk about flipped lessons and keep it buzzing in my ear.
A couple weeks ago I decided to go for it after teaching our class how to login into Discovery Ed and access their assignments with our technology integrator. I picked a math group that I knew would enjoy it, and also be able to login independently. This group had been learning new strategies to solve addition problems and was going to start learning about ways to make ten. They were assigned a fun Math Monster video about making groups of ten. In their math pocket they were given a sheet to record the many ways to make ten while they watched. Students were watching, pausing, recording ideas, playing it again, etc. so naturally that it blew my mind. After they watched and recorded all of their ideas/findings they were free to transition to workshop. The following day they came to their first seminar on making ten with more background knowledge and a better understanding. I received many comments on how they liked using videos and think sheets to get some information before attending a seminar to learn it from me. We have done this a couple more times since then in math. The students are able to gain insight and new information before diving into problem solving and discussions with their seminar group. They seem more confident and comfortable then when faced with challenges in a group of their peers.
I would definitely recommend flipped lessons in your learning environment.
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