I started flipping my classroom in the middle of last school year and I definitely learned a lot since then and look forward to continuing it this school year. We, my fellow 6th grade math teacher, began the school year immediately in the computer lab so we can teach our students how to use the platform, Canvas, which we use to flip. Canvas is the platform that our school district uses and in 6th grade a lot of the students have yet to use it very much so we needed to teach them how to navigate in order to partake in our flipped classroom. We record our lessons via SMART recorder for the students to watch on the night before we start a new objective. This video is embedded into the instructions of a quiz so when the students complete the lesson they will be instructed to take a short quiz to check for understanding and to provide us with data.
The students will arrive to class the next day ready to practice and put their new found knowledge into action. As the students are getting acclimated to this new learning model I'd give them opportunities to watch the video lesson at the beginning of class if they didn’t do it the night before. They would have to watch the video prior to participating in the class activity or assignment. Within canvas we set prerequisites to our modules to make students accomplish a certain grade or complete a certain lesson/assignment before they can move on the next lesson, however we learned this was not effective. Students were not receiving the minimum score requested so when they were trying to move on they couldn't or take a quiz it wouldn’t let them. So students that are/were absent for a few days at a time of the quiz/test they were "stuck" on where they left off. We had to remove the prerequisites because of this outcome… it’s a great idea and would like to continue using it but with 6th graders or students that don’t do their work it makes them be at a dead stop… which as a teacher that cripples us.
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