Argumentative Essay On Flipped Classroom

If someone were to ask a group of people what word students everywhere dread to hear the most, they could feel fairly confident that a common response would be “homework.” In the last eight years, however, a new system of teaching that seems to eliminate homework from students’ lives has become more popular among teachers. In the “flipped classroom” or “inverted classroom” system, homework is done in class with the teacher present, while lectures are watched through videos at home. Some teachers rave over the benefits of this system while other teachers doubt the flipped classroom’s benefits and find it more time consuming than helpful. Much like their teachers, students have mixed opinions on the flipped classroom method and its impact on their grades. Regan Boyd, a student at Union High School in a flipped Algebra II class “loves that (she) can work at (her) own pace and doesn’t have to spend half of class listening to the teacher explain something (she) already knows” (Boyd). Bri Stevens, another student in the same class had the opposite opinion, stating that “the flipped classroom is so annoying. It’s taken the human …show more content…
A teacher that is willing to adapt the flipped model to the students in their classroom would be much more successful that a teacher that has a set method of teaching and does not adapt. Jonathan Bergmann and Aaron Sams, who are credited with inventing the flipped classroom model, state in their book that “Every teacher who has chosen to flip has done so differently … even though we developed our … class together and are next door … Jonathan’s classroom is different from mine” (Sams 15). In this aspect, the flipped classroom is no different from a traditional model of teaching. The class’s success depends on the teacher’s ability and no model of teaching will change