Student Post: Emma DiBenedetto - Flipped Instruction

I watched the video about blended learning (flipping your classroom), and I have to say that I believe that flipping the classroom is one of the most effective ways of teaching students. Based on my own experience, it worked very well. My Organic Chemistry course was a flipped course. The professor would post a video of her teaching the upcoming lesson on Canvas before class for us to do as homework. During class, she would review the lesson and answer any questions we may have, then give us a packet of questions to work on as smaller groups in class. I felt like I learned a lot more by practicing the problems in class. This was the second time I had to take the class to improve my grade, and I was able to bump my grade up one whole letter. The professor was able to spend more individual time with the students. She was able to observe our work more closely and be fully available to answer questions. I was not someone who liked to ask questions in front of the whole class. However, this setting, with the students in smaller groups working independently of each other, I felt more comfortable with asking questions to work through the assignments with my classmates.

After watching the video, it has shown to be a better method of teaching. Having access to the lessons outside of class I find to be very helpful. The students can go back through the lessons and review what they might not understand. It does take more than one time to hear the information to fully understand what it means. At the end of the video, I liked that the teacher tried to incorporate more uses of technology in the classroom by having the students solve problems online and share it with the class. Not many students like to go up in front of the class and show their work. Being able to do it from their seat might be less intimidating for them.

https://tophat.com/blog/flipping-chemistry-classroom/