Quick Look: Does the Flipped Classroom Work for Every Teacher?

Interesting criticism about sending kids to watch videos at home: “Some teachers use the textbook well as a supplement to their class, and then other teachers use the textbook as a driving force to their class, which is usually pretty disastrous,” says Noschese, a physics teacher. He says if teachers want to engage kids in class, they should be thinking of activities to eliminate traditional classroom lectures altogether.

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As long as there have been teachers, they've battled the same problems: How can they reach students of multiple ability levels at once, cover more course material in limited time, and find more time to engage with students one-on-one? Some educators think they've found a solution to all three problems in, of all things, YouTube.

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