How my Colleagues FlippedMy Classroom

From Global Skills for College CompletionA Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Project

Presented byJoyce Lindstrom, Ed.D.

For American Mathematical Association for Two-Year Colleges

November 15, 2014

Professional development for faculty, by faculty

Year-long focus on one developmental math course with weekly submissions of activities, assessments, reflections, challenges and occasional submissions of classroom videos

Review of each submission by two colleagues on other campuses

What Was GSCC?

Teams of six facultyTwo assigned to read each submission and

respondCoach read all submissions and responsesI responded to the responses

How Did GSCC Work?

08-27 Time in a hybrid class

09-04 Student errors 09-15 Late arrivals09-17 Tardiness

Sample Reports to GSCC

09-17 3 x 3 systems of equations; rewriting absolute value statements

09-24 Sign errors; self-image as poor math students

10-08 Too many topics

Sample Reports to GSCC

10-15 Tardiness, leaving early 10-22 Review for Mid-Term – require?

10-29 Fewer examples, more group work 11-26 All on the same page!

Sample Reports to GSCC

12-16

I think students think of attendance in this hybrid class as an option in what they view as an online class…The bottom line I see by flipping my class is that students will be able to earn credits BY being in class but not FOR being in class.

Sample Reports to GSCC

2/4 I am looking forward to this new format; I had fallen into the trap of trying to accomplish in two hours what would normally take four. Impossible, I have concluded.

Second Semester

2-11 What a difference the extra time makes! Whew!

or ?

Second Semester

2/11 How can I help this student?...I am looking forward to suggestions from my colleagues. Am I being unfair?

Second Semester

3-41) Assessments on content videos2) Online homework with helps3) Online quizzes with no helps4) Online cumulative tests with book, notes5) In-class Mid-Term and Final exams with one 3 x 5 card (if student prepares it)

Is there a better way?

Assessment

3-11 I needed a way to make students more responsible for their own learning, and the flipped classroom emerged as an option. I like the new flow of the classroom.

Thank you, colleagues!

Second Semester

4-1In spite of a few cobwebs, 1) Class has a good attitude2) They are fun to teach!3) I sense that they realize I am on their team and want them to be successful! Yes!

Second Semester

A Few StatisticsLindstrom, Joyce

COURSE SECT_NO TERM STU CNT

GRD A-C

GRDD-F

GRD W

PASS %

W %

                 MAT-121 H1C 12/FA 24 8 11 5 33% 21%

MAT-121 H1C 13/SP 13 5 6 2 38% 15%                 MAT-121 04C 13/FA 29 18 8 3 62% 10%                 MAT-121 04C 14/SP 26 16 5 5 62% 19%MAT-121 49C 14/SP 9 7 2 0 78% 0%

1) Do you watch the videos about the material we will talk about in class before coming to class?

16 Yes 0 No

2) Does watching the videos make the assessments easy to complete?

12 Yes 2 Sometimes 2 No

3) Has the fact that the assessments can be turned in for credit only on the day they are due influenced how often you come to class?

6 Yes 7 No, because I would come anyway 3 No

What Do the Students Think?

Yes, it gets my brain ready to learn the material…

Yes, then I feel like I have a base that can be expanded upon in class.

While I don’t always turn them in, I always watch them, most of the time I watch them more than once because they do in fact provide valuable insight to help w/ completion!

Comments From Students10/30/14

I do like it that it gives me more to look at if I get stuck. I use the assessments to study sometimes. It gives me a better understanding how to do the assignment and section. Half the time [it helps] but the other half I’m

confused and just copy what the instructor says without really understanding.

No, it confuses me because in the video they sometimes skip a step and I can’t ask them questions.

Comments From Students10/30/14

Questions?

What experience do you have with flipping your classroom?

What suggestions do you have for the rest of us?

So that is how my colleagues flipped my classroom.