I recently attended a course at the Ohio Fire Academy that changed my approach to training firefighters. It wasn’t the content or the prop that profoundly impacted me; it was the brain stretch. The ...

Can flipping the classroom fix the educational system? Is traditional education working? In the “Flipped Learning” method, teachers assign home viewing of videotaped lectures, then spend class time ...

Brenton McNally, Janine Chipperfield, Pat Dorsett, Letitia Del Fabbro, Valda Frommolt, Sandra Goetz, Joanne Lewohl, Matthew Molineux, Andrew Pearson, Gregory Reddan ...

3. Flipping the grading One technique I have used in my classroom for years now is based on Bloom’s concept of Mastery Grading, as well as video-game leveling. Traditional grades are designed to be ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. In a flipped ...

In the spring of 2013, after attending several conferences and beginning research for my dissertation, I set out to flip some of the aspects of my classroom. The term “flipping your classroom,” coined ...

“Flipping” the classroom is a new pedagogical approach that promises to re-energize learning. Instead of focusing on lectures during class time, it asks instructors to treat classrooms as hubs for ...

Flipping the classroom—in which students independently consume online lessons or lectures and then spend their time in the classroom focused on what we used to call homework—crashed on the scene eight ...

Rebecca Torchia is a web editor for EdTech: Focus on K–12. Previously, she has produced podcasts and written for several publications in Maryland, Washington, D.C., and her hometown of Pittsburgh.

American public education is a fairly new institution. In some ways, it has changed little since its inception two centuries ago. Students have always (much to the chagrin of radicals like Laura ...