Flipped teaching and Challenge Based Learning were new concepts for me, up until we began to explore them in our course this semester. As a result of my change from being a full time classroom teacher, to working part-time as an intervention teacher (for the past five years), I have not had to participate in our professional development, nor other training at our school site. I feel like I am definitely out of the loop when it comes to all of the new things going on in education.
Now that I have learned more about Flipped teaching and CBL it has sparked and interest in me because I feel like they both provide more engagement and more motivation for students than the traditional structure of learning. They provide the opportunities needed for students to be active learners and producers of knowledge, rather than merely being consumers of knowledge. As much as I would like to try to implement some of the aspects of Flipped teaching and CBL, I feel it is almost impossible to fully implement them, given the intervention placement that I am currently in. The amount of time I am allocated for each group does not really allow for additional incorporation and I am to deliver a particular curriculum for intervention. However, I feel like I can integrate some of the 21st century skills need for our students. Thinking from the perspective of a regular classroom teacher, Flipped Teaching and CBL seem to be an exciting way of engaging our students. Yet, I can’t help but think of our students that do not have the necessary technology available in order to do flipped teaching. I feel like Flipped teaching (in this program) was a bit of a challenge for me, at first because it was new, yet I do feel the positive impact of being able to learn the material beforehand and having class time for more interaction and questions that arise are more meaningful. I believe that CBL is a great way to produce better prepared 21st century learners and truly teach the whole child, so that we can improve humanity over all. We must not forget, our students are not only leaders of their education, but they are also the leaders of the future!
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Jane Gallagher
11/18/2017 09:32:21 pm
I agree with you about the challenges of implementing these new teaching practices. Time is not on our side to dive into PBL or CBL and I am concerned that flipped teaching may not work as well with English language learners. However, like you, I think CBL and PBL would be fantastic ways to help children learn in a very meaningful and fun way.
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Emily Feil
11/19/2017 05:34:19 am
I agree that in our intervention setting, it would be a challenge to pull off CBL alone. The video of the Australian middle school really inspired me. It would be exciting to be part of a school-wide or grade-level CBL effort. Maybe some of the intervention time could be devoted to helping kids with their particular piece of the challenge? For example, if all students were supposed to visit a particular website to gain more information on the topic, the intervention teacher could devote some small group time to scaffold for the struggling students to help them access the content. There are probably lots of ways to make it work, but it would require a mindset shift for the whole school. Currently we are an isolated piece of students' day, which allows us to be highly structured and sequential. We would have to sacrifice some of that in order to incorporate these fabulous new ideas. It is up to the school community to decide if the trade-off is worth it.
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Shawn O'Neal
11/20/2017 05:01:09 pm
I agree with all of you ladies! This approach seems wonderful but our back are usually against the wall when it comes to time. Our district just adopted a new curriculum and it is very time intensive. On top of that our district frowns on the idea of homework. So there is very limited time to implement some of this approaches. I am going to try my best to allow more of my class to become more student driven and fuel their curiosity.
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