In Flipped Model, Kids Learn At Home, Do Homework In Class

The Washington Post (4/16, Strauss) reports former high school chemistry teacher Jonathan Bergmann "helps teachers around the world 'flip' their classrooms." The Post publishes excerpts of an interview with Bergmann who says that in such a classroom, "the direct instruction piece, the lecture, is done now at home with videos," while the teacher in the classroom helps "students as they do what they would normally do at home." This allows the teacher "to help with the instruction piece, the learning, while the lecture is done at home." The model started with hard sciences and math, and it words for foreign languages. Bergmann said, "we've got some amazing teachers speaking at our conference who are English teachers," adding that while "I haven't seen a whole lot of social studies and history...there is a movement amongst them."