Physics Teacher's First Week with a Flipped Classroom

My first reading comes from the Strickland Science Bloghttp://stricklandscience.weebly.com/1/post/2012/09/my-first-week-with-a-flipped-classroom.html by Gary Strickland, a rural Texas Physics teacher.   His first post is "My First Week with a Flipped Classroom."   He intends to follow his first-year journey flipping his classroom.   His basic approach is to assign video instruction for the students to watch, an 13 and 11 minute video.  He notes that realizing his audience is possibly world wide via the web improved the quality and accuracy of his instruction.

After the video, he designed a button in which students had to answer three questions reflecting and asking questions after the video.  This button not only made them accountable for the assignment.  He also know before class which concepts needed clarification and how they needed clarification.  When they got to class, the labs were set up.  Because the instruction was done as homework, the students came to class ready to "do" Physics.  This teacher seemed excited after his first week working with the flipped approach and felt the response was positive from parents and students as well.

Now that I've seen a couple examples of flipped science and math classrooms, I'm going to keep my eye open for an example of a flipped classroom in teaching literature.  Since traditionally the homework is reading and the class time is discussion and other activities, what might a flipped classroom look like in a Literature class.