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[Originally Posted August 2014]
Last week, I had the opportunity to attend a one-day symposium put on by the Yale Center for Scientific Teaching. The event was fantastic, and essentially the entire morning was dedicated to flipped and active-learning classrooms. I especially enjoyed listening to Jim Rolf, a calculus teacher at Yale who has adopted the flipped classroom. I appreciated his stories about putting content online in video format, because his experiences so closely mirrored my own. He also offered some ideas and frameworks which I found very useful. Here are a few tidbits I brought away from his talk, and a few meandering reflections:
Inform - prior to class (video)
Confirm - linked quizzes related to the material. I know from my own classes that this is a critical component; it apparently holds true even at Yale.
Extend - During class, offer just-in-time-teaching, peer-instruction, etc., to build on the ideas.
There were several other very enjoyable sessions from the meeting, but perhaps the very best one came at the end of the day - a trip all by myself to Modern Apizza, a venerated brick-oven pizza place a mile or so from Yale’s main campus. Delicious.
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