Flipped Classroom Model

State teacher expectation vs. reality is and will always be a highly debated topic. The state of Texas will implement a new teacher evaluation method next year. In this new evaluation, a teacher can only achieve an exemplary status if and only if all students are actively engaged. In reality, if a teacher can get every single student to be engaged every day, not only are they exemplary, they are a miracle worker who will make millions being a consultant. With little to no training being offered to help teachers reach every student in class, teachers are left in a bind. It seems every month there is a new teaching strategy that promises to be the solution, but without substantial research these new strategies are nothing more than a shot in the dark. Flipped classroom, sometimes referred to as inverted classroom, is not a shot in the dark and has substantial research, showing its effectiveness. In a flipped classroom, …show more content…
For example, Green (2012) recorded a case that indicated failure rates dropped as much as 31% in Mathematics and 22% in Science. Flumerfelt and Green (2013) noted a study of 23 at-risk students and found that the flipped classroom increased their homework rates from 75% to 100%. At the college level, Marcy and Brint (2012) studied an undergraduate group of Biology students and noted a significant increase in learning when compared to the control group. The studies go on and on, although a flipped classroom does not always warrant success. For example, Strayer (2012) studied a flipped classroom and a traditional classroom in an introductory statistics course. Results of the study indicated the students in a flipped classroom were less satisfied than those in a regular classroom setting. The students cited that they did not adjust comfortably to the radical change. Perhaps the professor should have eased the students into a flipped classroom and they might have had different