Posts Tagged by change
Redesigning Learning in a Flipped Classroom
| May 16, 2012 | Posted by Brian Bennett under All, Flipclass, Risk, Teaching, Thoughts |
A comment I hear frequently after a visit is, “That looked nothing like what I thought it would.” It’s a good place to start a discussion about the total redesign a flipped classroom brings. A major criticism of the flipped classroom is that lecture is given as homework, and homework becomes the new class work.… more
Ugly Learning
| April 13, 2012 | Posted by Brian Bennett under All, Flipclass, Grading, Teaching |
Unfortunately, we are entrenched in an age of education that wants to be “pretty.” Students are all reaching “mastery” in every subject and they all move at the same pace through every class every year. Like all utopian societies, this is not attainable. True learning is ugly (to outsiders), and we need to embrace that… more
It Is Up to Me
| March 14, 2012 | Posted by Brian Bennett under All, Risk, Teaching, Thoughts |
I have learned more this year than ever before and I keep coming back to one inescapable truth: If I want education to change, it is up to me to change it. I am not arguing that I am the savior of American schools. I am saying if we want local, committed, and relevant change… more
Culture of Change
| November 10, 2011 | Posted by Brian Bennett under All, Teaching, Thoughts |
A few weeks ago, I came to Twitter lamenting the abysmal grades from a quiz I had given. You’d think I had learned my lesson at that point…well, I didn’t. I gave another quiz today and I didn’t even finish grading the stack of papers. That got me thinking about what I’m really running into… more
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