Classrooms without Boundaries - SMART Technologies

FEATURE ARTICLEThe Flippedflipped classroom n. A model of teachingviewed outside of class on a video. Class timewhat would traditionally be viewed as students’In 2007, science teachers JonathanBergmann and Aaron Sams atWoodland Park High School inWoodland Park, Colorado, startedrecording lectures for students towatch as homework and usingclass time to guide students asthey worked on assignments,creating the flipped classroommodel. Since then, flippedclassrooms have been poppingup in schools throughout NorthAmerica. In fact, departments –and even entire schools – havebegun using the flipped classroommodel. Teachers say that “flipping”helps students develop a deeperunderstanding of classroommaterials, reduces failure rates andimproves test scores.14 | June 2012