[OSList] flipped mastery classrooms

[chunili2000 at yahoo.com]

Doug,

The New Milford High School in NJ was recently in the news for the success of their
pilot of the flipped classroom method. Students watch the recorded lecture at
home and do their homework in class so they can get help when they need it. The
average grade was A according to the news report, compared to B of the traditional
classroom. One student's math grade went from C to A, and students' motivation
and engagement all went up.

Mastery learning becomes possible when the teacher can afford individual
attention to different students' needs. However, in our current system, even in the flipped classroom, the curriculum
is defined for the students. The students still have to learn what the system
requires them to learn when the system requires them to learn, and be tested accordingly. This at the
lower grade may be understandable, but becomes quite demotivating at the higher grades or college
level, especially when the class has to be curved.

In my college teaching, I use mastery learning with my students. Those who are
willing to work with me can keep revising their work until they get an A. But
the school doesn't like that as my class has "inflated" grades.
Earlier this year, I proposed to have a class where the students would create
the syllabus together by themselves. It was shot down because the school policy
requires the syllabus to be posted weeks before the semester begins.


Do we not have a long way to go in letting
education be the passion and responsibility of the learners rather than the
teacher?

Chuni



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 From: doug <ost at footprintsinthewind.com>
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Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 10:27 PM
Subject: [OSList] flipped mastery classrooms
 

Friends--

Take a look at flipped mastery classrooms and tell us just how open is 
this space?

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/23/in-flipped-classrooms-a-method-for-mastery/?src=me

:- Doug.
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