Overcoming the Summer/COVID-19 Slump & The Future of Education is Hybrid/Blended: The Flipped Classroom
Newsletter #8 Week 8 With the stark reality that was discussed during yesterday’s congressional hearings, the reality of a normal Fall opening. Online solutions will need to be implemented in a possible reopening by staggering students entering classrooms to an every other day A/B format. There could even be an A/B/C format to limit the population and chance of exposure. The secondary challenge will be handling students who ceased learning any curriculum when the schools were shut down. The Flipped Classroom Since 2009 I have been speaking about the flipped classroom concept but not for the reasons of a pandemic, but to allow teachers to spend more quality time with their students by having more lab time and allowing for 1 on 1 mentoring for those who need it. We learn most by doing but they need to be seeded with quality instruction first. The concept started years earlier by math teachers and Khan Academy. Overcoming the Summer/COVID-19 Slu...