Jackie Gerstein suggested this topic because she believes that the teacher is no logger the "only expert" in the room. She has a great presentation on this here. It's worth the time to view! Flipped Classroom: The Full Picture View more presentations from Jackie Gerstein She feels that students can find these videos to get the information from experts rather from the teacher, who may or may not be an expert. Here are some notes from the conversation: An AP History teacher shared that he assigned lectures on Monday's and had small group discussions in a blended format over the next two days. Teachers without good discussion skills benefit from smaller discussion groups, and as we found in Edina, students can go deeper into topics of interest. This teacher starts the year lecturing and showing them how to take notes and get information from the lecture.He requires the students to show their notes in order to participate in the small group discussion. This ha...
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