Essay On Flipped Classroom

What I want to know is, who came up with the idea of a flipped classroom; a classroom where the students learn the lesson through a video at home and come to school to do homework. The students might as well take an online course or better yet, learn from YouTube. Although teachers feel as if they are eliminating homework and making it easier for kids, a flipped classroom imposes more harm than benefits.
Two of the kids that I tutor in math have a flipped classroom. I have watched the online videos with them when they were learning. The math videos for middle school last about ten minutes. The first thing that I think is “How convenient for the teachers to be able to turn a fifty minute class into a ten minute online video!” There’s the problem. The entire point of teaching in a classroom is for academic interruptions. As a teacher explains a concept, students might begin to understand it and get lost in the middle. In a classroom the student is able to interrupt the teacher and ask them a question while the concept is fresh in the head. Kait and Peyton, the kids that I tutor, began getting confused in the middle of the videos. All they can do at that point is press pause and play. Once they were really perplexed; they completely lost focus. “I don’t understand the lesson when I watch the videos, …show more content…
The more traditional classroom effectively teaches students at a slower pace. This style is the best method for all students and helps the educator also understand the students needs more clearly. Kids catch a long faster and are able to ask more questions when the teacher is teaching a lesson. I do think the flipped classroom idea could be used with the traditional classroom in place. For example, reviews for chapter tests or finals could be posted online as videos and students do the review in class. This would work because students have already understood major concepts of the