The flipped classroom is sort of like learning on your own, and then having having class be more of a study hall/ practice time. It's when the teacher tasks the student with learning the material on their own, usually with the help of an online guided lesson, and then when they come into class they have more time for discussion and practice of the learned material. It gives room to allow more fluid development of some skills, but it doesn't work for every student type. Personally, I'm not a fan of flipped classrooms, but it depends on the subject. For stem related courses, I was never comfortable with them because it's hard to develop a full understanding with a guiding hand. However, for history classes I think it's a bit different. It's somewhat needed for students to do their own researching and learning for certain topics, especially if you're in a current events class, that way the discussions can be uninterrupted and have as many different voices as possible.
Open educational resources are a teachers best friend. They're, usually, websites that have resources for teachers to use, free of charge and with the availability of editing and personalizing. They're a commons for coursework, and a lot of it is teachers helping teachers. HelpTeaching is an OER I found online, however I'm not 100% sure if it's totally an OER because there is a small fee. * edit - HelpTeaching is actually free, both membership wise and material wise, I just misread it. It offers educators many, many different things, such as tests, lesson plans, activity sheets. This includes a "test maker" and a way to actually test your students online.
I loved doing the powerpoint assignments. Well, more specifically I loved the second one, I had a lot of trouble with the first. I never knew any of the stuff we learned for assignment 5, I think it was super cool. Being able to make powerpoints a bit more interactive is definitely something I plan on doing as a teacher. Many of my past teachers had made Jeopardy style games, like the one I did, and I'm glad I've learned just how much hard work goes into them. I originally wanted to make an "Oregon Trail" style game, but I felt like it wouldn't have been original enough. The main thing I disliked about these two projects was that I can't do them on my laptop, because it's a Chromebook. I had to spend hours borrowing the laptops from the library, and I felt like it wasn't completely reliable.
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