The flipped classroom seems to be the teaching technique du
jour. Every few days I see a new mention of it in the media.
This weekend the Washington Post carried an article. From "The
flip: Classwork at home, homework in class": Today, the 48-year-
old [Jonathan Bergmann] helps teachers around the world “flip”
their classrooms. Last week, he was at Harvard Law School
talking about the virtues of flipping. A book he and Sams wrote,
“Flip Your Classroom: Reach Every Student in Every Class Every
Day,” is coming out in June, and Bergmann is planning the fifth
annual conference on Flipped Learning this summer. Q. What
exactly is a flipped classroom? In the simplest form, basically,
it’s this: What’s normally done in class, the direct instruction
piece, the lecture, is done now at home with videos. And in
class, you, the teacher, help students as they do what they
would normally do at home. Q. This makes the role of the teacher
at least as important as ever. Right? The flip makes the teacher
more important. The teac