Time for Year 12 to ‘flip the classroom’.
As Year 11 students commence their HSC courses in Term 4, they will participate in a Flipped Classroom approach in all subjects across all Key Learning Areas (KLAs).
The Flipped Classroom affords them the opportunity to engage with the content, activate prior knowledge and attempt to understand it prior to the next lesson. What the students do not understand is communicated to their teacher and this forms the basis of the upcoming lesson. Class time is therefore used primarily for application and not simply content delivery - and this is how the traditional classroom has been 'flipped'! A big question asked is ‘why’?
The graphs below help to explain why we believe it is necessary to use the Flipped Classroom at PMH. Essentially, we need to find more time for all students to ensure as many as possible can achieve as highly and as consistently as they possibly can (Graph 1).
Therefore, the Flipped Classroom is one way we believe we can address the Time-Achievement Equality Dilemma at Parramatta Marist. As evidenced in Graph 2, the shifting results of all students at HSC level over the period 2007 to 2017 may be indicative of not just the use of the Flipped Classroom but the validation of the whole school changes we have adopted in that period.
As always, we will continue to explore ways to ‘go forth with strength’!
Fortior Ito