Over a cup of tea and a biscuit one day in 2012, I had a pedagogical epiphany. Aaron Sams’ book, Flip Your Classroom, changed he way I teach – and everyone is better off for it.
In what has become known as the “Flipped Classroom” methodology, Sams advocated abandoning our Victorian model of educating students – lecturing them in class, demanding that they write notes and carry out further work at home for assessment.
In a flipped classroom, teachers would ditch this “chalk ‘n’ talk” method by asking students, instead, to do the homework first. Learning begins when children read or watch available online materials and videos in short bursts, with subsequent class time used to discuss and cement the knowledge acquired.
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