Flip teaching

Upside Down instruction denotes a teaching method of integrated learning, in which the homework and the material mediation be reversed insofar as the learning content to be developed at home by the students and the application in the school is done. In the English literature, this method is known as flip teaching, flipped classroom or inverted known teaching.

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The classic form of teaching, instruction classes, consists of teacher -guided phases in school and building upon exercises at home. In the inverted classroom teachers create materials for the students, often video sequences who focus this at home. The exercises will then take place in the school.

Implications for teaching

The relocation of the teaching sequences home leads to more class time in which students can be coached by the teacher. The students, the method offers the possibility of viewing it the content of teaching independently and at their own pace. When using for example video can be paused or rewound while the video. If questions or problems understanding, students can ask directly to the teacher immediately via the Internet or in the exercise phases.

Teachers are responsible for the production, selection and provision of suitable materials, which are received by the learners outside the traditional classroom time, responsible. In the presence of phase you ask, have arisen in the preparation, are received by the teachers and clarified before the assembled class, but there is no new material conveys but the material prepared by the learners practiced and discussed as independently as possible. The teacher becomes a facilitator.

Methodological aspects

In the practical implementation of the inverted classroom, there are some important methodological aspects that need to be considered:

• Accompanying tasks provide: To prevent learners the upstream content consume aimlessly, accompanying tasks should be provided. This can be in the simplest case, certain aspects or key questions to which special attention should be paid when editing the material. At the other end of the spectrum can be discovered are learning, in which an independent task solution must be worked out on the basis of the substance.
• Not repeat content, if presented in the presence of time, the contents of the upstream phase again - about him because hardly anyone has dealt with - there is a risk that learners advance not deal with the substance. An exception is the addressing of issues that relate to specific problems with the fabric.

Examples in college

From the university environment, there are Christian Spannagelhaus some records and reflections on the concept on his blog. In addition, there are regular exchanges on this and related topics on the Educamps.

On May 31, 2012, three high school teachers Jürgen Handke have of the Philipps- University Marburg, Christian Spannagelhaus of Heidelberg University of Education and Jörn Loviscach of the Fachhochschule Bielefeld in a joint press release this new " lecture form for the 21st century " propagated.

Examples in school

In the school sector there by Felix Ensign and Carsten Thein a project of the " Flipped Classroom" in mathematics. They teach the entire course level in Baden- Württemberg in mathematics in this style.