High Hopes for the Semester, part 2
Microscopy…Arrgh! It can be a bane for many students. However, it can also be a gateway for many of them to truly understanding the material if I can only figure out how to help them reach through the fear and…
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From HAPS President to Flipped-Classroom-Apprentice: Why I also ‘drank the kool-aid’
These past two and a half months as HAPS president have been keeping me busy. I am in the midst of planning our mid-year meeting for the Board and Steering committee, assisting the Jacksonville committee for the HAPS 2014 planning,…
12- Does it Improve Student Learning?
One of the best things about HAPS (in my opinion) is the priority it places on TEACHING and LEARNING. I was a first-timer at the annual conference in May and I felt a powerful sense of community among a diverse…
Flipping A&P: Flipped Day
Yesterday, September 6, was Flip Your Classroom Day: A Global Initiative. The event was sponsored by the Flipped Learning Network. Educators worldwide pledged to flip a class yesterday (or any day). In honor of Flipped Day, I decided to start my new…
High Hopes for the Semester, part 1
I spent the summer traveling and thinking about new ideas for my courses or updates or changes to current ideas for my courses. It was a time of great hope and great promise. The first week of classes was a…
11- Bursting Bubbles
The semester has started and I’m already sprinting full speed to keep up. My grand vision of having all my video lectures recorded before the first day of class (so I could spend more time focusing on improving the ACTIVITIES…
10- Professional Development
I was very lucky to attend a talk by MIT physics professor Eric Mazur last week at Humboldt State University’s Institute for Student Success. While Mazur never once uttered the word “flip”, he clearly was advocating an inverted classroom model…
Shadowing Trauma Surgeons
My last week in Sacramento, in addition to trying to pack and get everything back in my car, I was sent follow a resident in the Emergency Department. This service is especially difficult because its patients range from the mentally…
9- Attendance
Concerns about student attendance is one of the arguments I’ve heard against flipping. Why would students bother coming to class if they can get all the content on their own time? Unfortunately, my lecture attendance did drop in my flipped…
8- DO Something!
Figuring out how to motivate students to come to class prepared is the first half of a successful flip. Figuring out how to keep them motivated by providing meaningful activities during class time is the second half of the challenge.…