The Differentiated Flipped Classroom: A Practical Guide to Digital Learning

by Eric M. Carbaugh, Kristina J. Doubet

Ensure personalized student learning with this breakthrough approach to the Flipped Classroom!

This groundbreaking guide helps you identify and address diverse student needs within the flipped classroom. You’ll find practical, standards-aligned solutions to help you design and implement carefully planned at-home and at-school learning experiences, all while checking for individual student understanding.

Differentiate learning for all students with research-based best practices to help
Includes real-world examples and a resource-rich appendix. 

Genres: Education

216 pages, Paperback

First published December 18, 2015

Reviews

[Callum Wilson · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a damn fine book. Relatively short and simply packed with ideas and strategies that you can try next week! That is the true strength of the book. Yes it has some rationale and outline for flipped learning and differentiation, but its the wealth of strategies offered where it shines. These strategies usually come with real examples and templates that helps solidfy it in one's mind and increase chances of opting in.

I would not suggest this as a book for deep understanding of flipped learning or differentiation, you'll need to get that elsewhere. But if you come to the book armed with a) an understanding of these concepts and b) a desire to try them, then this is the book for.

Thanks authors.

[Wei · Rating 4 out of 5]

Highlights
Findings from neuroscience reveal the following as a necessary affective foundation for student learning to take place (Sousa & Tomlinson, 2011):
1. Caring relationships—teacher-to-student and student-to-student—within the classroom.
2. Student ownership over, and investment in, their education.
3. Active and open confrontation of the fear of failure, which is a major obstacle to learning.
4. Positive interactions between students and teacher and among students, which raises the frontal lobe’s ability to support memory.

The path to transforming instruction does not start with huge leaps, but rather with small, next steps.

Mindset Videos
1. Famous Failures (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLYEC...)
2. Grit TED Talk (http://www.ted.com/talks/angela_lee_d...)
3. The Near Miss TED Talk (https://www.ted.com/talks/sarah_lewis...)

[Carrie · Rating 4 out of 5]

I will have to review this book again a few times as I am working through lesson plans with the differentiated flipped model in mind. (Thankfully, the authors provided a Differentiated Flipped Lesson Plan template as well as sample lesson plans using the template. I think I’ll be using this template next year rather than Planbook.)

In any case, this book is full of great strategies for implementing differentiation in a flipped classroom (as implied by the title), but it didn’t do much for me in the way of getting started with flipping my classroom. If you are a teacher already using the flipped model, what resources can you point me toward as far as a “Flipping for Dummies” starter guide? I have a basic gist of what it should look like in the end, but I don’t know the best way to get started. I did note that I want to just start assigning direct instruction content as homework, so finding and/or creating those videos is where I will begin. Is there something else I should focus on to start?

Overall, I’m glad this book exists as a resource. I look forward to experimenting with flipping my classroom in the upcoming 4th quarter of this school year so I can work out initial problems with routines and procedures before starting the school year next year using this instructional model!

[Diz · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book presents a good introduction to flipping the classroom and differentiated learning, and then provides advice for how to manage a class using these approaches. Lots of activity ideas are included as well. The weak point of the book is that there are a handful of references that are quoted again and again, so it gives the impression of being based on a limited number of sources.

[Emily Kuehnl · Rating 1 out of 5]

Absolutely HATE the concept of a flipped classroom. I don't think students should have to extend their school day even longer and teach themselves new material. Relies too heavily on technology - especially with so many housing insecure or homeless students in the US. Awful, terrible, no thank you.

[Debra · Rating 3 out of 5]

Oh my! I am going to try some of these very prescribed strategies. But WOW! I feel as if this way is going to be so challenging.