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What’s being used in your child’s 8th grade class is the flipped classroom strategy [1], as already mentioned. In my own experience through two graduate degrees

What’s being used in your child’s 8th grade class is the flipped classroom strategy [1], as already mentioned. In my own experience through two graduate degrees, I rarely saw the benefit of attending a live class. I now come to find, many years later, that students’ class attendance in some graduate programs is at an all time low [2], and seems not to make a difference [3]. I encourage my 5th grade daughter to do both. She’ll workout problems with pen and paper or on a white board, and complement her studies with online tools [4,5,6]. Based on this regimen with a sample of one, she’s done very well. ;-) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flipped_classroom?wprov=sfti1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flipped_classroom?wprov=sfti1 [2] https://www.statnews.com/2018/08/14/medical-students-skipping-class/ https://www.statnews.com/2018/08/14/medical-students-skippin... [3] https://www.usnews.com/news/education-news/articles/2018-06-19/study-medical-student-attendance-doesnt-mean-better-grades https://www.usnews.com/news/education-news/articles/2018-06-... [4] https://beastacademy.com/ https://beastacademy.com/ [5] https://aopsacademy.org/ https://aopsacademy.org/ [6] https://www.curriculumassociates.com/products/i-ready https://www.curriculumassociates.com/products/i-ready

yorwba 7y ago
> flipped classroom >> She told me one of the teachers pre-records the lectures, and they watch those in class, instead of live instruction. That's not flipped classroom, it's some weird cargo-cult hybrid combining the drawbacks of pre-recorded lectures with the drawbacks of in-classroom lectures. The whole point of flipped classroom is to move mostly non-interactive stuff like lectures out of the classroom by assigning them as homework, while moving exercises that were previously considered homework into the classroom where a teacher is available to answer questions. I hope OP's daughter at least gets a copy of the video she can re-watch later.
- vo2maxer 7y ago
  I am sorry I missed that essential detail in your sentence. I agree, that’s not the flipped classroom strategy. You’re right to be uneasy about that teacher’s approach which does sound like a class on autoteacher for a few years. I had a teacher in 10th grade that would ask us to read any book we had, while he put his head on his desk and “meditated.”

yorwba 7y ago

> flipped classroom >> She told me one of the teachers pre-records the lectures, and they watch those in class, instead of live instruction. That's not flipped classroom, it's some weird cargo-cult hybrid combining the drawbacks of pre-recorded lectures with the drawbacks of in-classroom lectures. The whole point of flipped classroom is to move mostly non-interactive stuff like lectures out of the classroom by assigning them as homework, while moving exercises that were previously considered homework into the classroom where a teacher is available to answer questions. I hope OP's daughter at least gets a copy of the video she can re-watch later.

vo2maxer 7y ago
I am sorry I missed that essential detail in your sentence. I agree, that’s not the flipped classroom strategy. You’re right to be uneasy about that teacher’s approach which does sound like a class on autoteacher for a few years. I had a teacher in 10th grade that would ask us to read any book we had, while he put his head on his desk and “meditated.”