Flipped Learning: Tips for Effective Implementation

Flipped Learning: Tips for Effective Implementation Here are some tips to help make the implementation of flipped learning more effective:
Strategies to increase student engagement
	Students not completing homework has always been a challenge. The following strategies can help ensure students complete their assignments, including watching the videos, at home or in class: Set Expectations: Clearly communicate your expectations for students to watch the videos. Remember that students may be unfamiliar with this model of learning and need to be taught how to succeed. Consistently reinforce expectations. Accountability: Communicate the learning objectives for the video assignment. Provide opportunities for a quick, formative assessment that provides students feedback on their learning and holds them accountable to their assignment. Assign a grade and/or require students to watch the video in-class if not done before class. Do not bail students out if they do not meet set expectations. Recruit Parental Support: Share with parents the rationale for flipped learning and garner their support. Call home if their child isn’t watching the videos. Relationships Matter: Connect individually with students who don’t watch the videos to discuss importance of completing assignments and to identify any potential barriers for the student. Design Strong Lessons: Strong, relevant and engaging lessons have always been the best form of classroom management. The same is true in the flipped learning model. Select and/or create concise and engaging videos (see video for tips). Connect the learning from the video back to in-class learning experiences. Design the in-class learning so that it is relevant, highly engaging and fosters higher order thinking, including the 4 Cs (creativity, critical thinking, collaboration and communication).  The in-class learning should include active learning with peers and opportunities for students to connect with you too. Fostering relationships is key! Note:  If the in-class activity is highly engaging, students won’t want to miss out by having to sit and watch the video first. They will quickly learn to complete video assignments in order to engage in the fun learning with their peers.
Teach students how to watch flipped videos
WSQ = Watch + Summarize + Question	“Watching an instructional video is different than watching a video for entertainment.” It is essential to teach students the skills for watching videos for learning. The WSQ strategy can help engage students as well as help them process their new learning: Watch: Require students to take guided notes while watching the video. Encourage students to use the pause/rewind buttons. Summarize: After watching the video, have students write a summary of what they learned. This helps retention and academic language development. Provide guiding questions, sentence starters or sentence frames as needed. Question: Encourage student curiosity. Require students to ask a relevant, higher order thinking question that they have about the content. Use these questions during in-class or online discussions.
Tech Tools to Support Engagement & WSQ
EdPuzzle is a free online tool that allows you to embed stop points and questions into videos/screencasts to increase accountability and to provide formative feedback/analytics. You can also disable the option of skipping ahead in a video.
With VideoNote.es, all student notes are synchronized with the video with the notes saved in their Google Drive. Students can then reference their notes and quickly rewatch related snips from the video.
Embed the video into a Schoology assessment where students can respond to questions related to the video content (M/C, essay, T/F, etc).
Embed the video into a Schoology discussion where students can ask their questions as well as respond to each others’ questions.
Seesaw Activities: Include the videos in the Seesaw Activities and have students use Seesaw tools to creatively process and communicate their learning.

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Flipping the Learning by Jonathan Bergmann