Flipped Classrooms move core instruction outside class, placing too many requirements on students to teach themselves.

Rebecca Torchia is a web editor for EdTech: Focus on K–12. Previously, she has produced podcasts and written for several publications in Maryland, Washington, D.C., and her hometown of Pittsburgh.

"If you were to step into one of my classrooms, you'd think I was teaching a kindergarten class, not a physics class," laughs Harvard University (MA) professor Eric Mazur. "Not because the students ...

Editor’s note: Greg Green is the principal at Clintondale High School in Clinton Township, Michigan. I’m a principal at Clintondale High, a financially challenged school near Detroit. I’m in charge of ...

What are best practices to make a flipped classroom model work? I have to say that I have absolutely no experience with a flipped classroom (the term commonly used to describe the practice of having ...

Editor’s note: Greg Green is the principal at Clintondale High School in Clinton Township, Michigan. His guest post on this blog titled “My View: Flipped classrooms give every student a chance to ...

A flipped classroom model means that while students are in school, they work on their homework. When they go home, they watch recorded lectures. This flipped model gives students who have struggled ...

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The flipped learning model doesn't necessarily work in the long term, according to an experiment at West Point. Researchers at the United States Military Academy found that the use of "flipped courses ...