The inverted classroom is an educational model that shifts the work of certain learning processes out of the classroom. In the meantime, use class time to work in areas where teacher help and experience is needed.
Students learn content outside the classroom, accessing videos and materials from each subject at home, so that the class is the time when the most participatory lessons and activities occur, the analysis of ideas or discussions between them, all supported by new technologies and a teacher acting as a guide.
- Jonathan Bergmann and Aaron Sams.
- Two chemistry teachers at Woodland Park High School in Woodland Park.
- Colorado.
- USA.
- U.
- S.
- They coined the term “reverse class” or reverse class.
- Bergmann and Sams realized that students missed certain courses for specific reasons (e.
- G.
- Illness).
In an effort to help these students, they began recording and distributing videos and realized that this model allows the teacher to pay more attention to each student’s individual needs.
The main advantage of the reverse class is that the teacher adapts to different learning rhythms and none of the students are left behind.
In a traditional classroom, the teacher transmits information that, for some, is easy to process, but can be difficult for others; at home, students do homework, so anyone with parents with subject-related knowledge wins. allows each student to receive what they need in class.
The pedagogical innovation proposed by this pedagogical model offers excellent benefits for the teaching/learning process, the student becomes the protagonist, performing participatory activities in dynamic and interactive learning, while the teacher becomes a simple guide.
Teachers can spend more time providing personalized attention to students. A collaborative learning process and environment is created in the classroom. The entire educational community (family, teachers, social community, teachers, etc. ) is part of the learning process.
This method allows students to access and expand their knowledge whenever they want, as well as make it easier for students to review content generated and/or encouraged by teachers when they need it.
New technologies are driving new learning models and much more interactive classrooms, the reverse class allows the correct use, from a pedagogical point of view, of information technologies in the classroom, we are not talking so much about the amount of technological resources, but how they are optimized to create and share content.
In addition, new technologies, combined with this innovative methodology, offer the opportunity to create and share the teaching/learning process with students and teachers around the world, making it even more rewarding and differentiated than traditional methods.
Many models similar to the reverse class have been developed with other names. Peer Instruction was developed by Harvard professor Eric Mazur and incorporates a technique called “tailor-made teaching” as a complementary element to the inverted class model.
Tailor-made teaching allows the teacher to receive feedback from students the day before the course, so they can develop strategies and activities that fill the gaps that may exist in students in understanding the content.
Mazur’s model is primarily focused on conceptual understanding, and although this element is not a necessary component in the reverse class, the two models are essentially similar.