Some students are taking lectures home and doing homework in class at Mary Institute and Saint Louis Country Day School. Math teachers Chris Ludbrook and Kyle Webb created a “flipped classroom” by experimenting with new ways of presenting math and science skills. Teachers record a 5- to 10-minute lecture, which students watch at home. They then practice what they learned the next day in the classroom.
“One of the things that people wonder about technology-rich classrooms is if kids are just sitting behind screens all the time,” says Jeff Suzik, assistant head of school at MICDS. “In the case of the flipped classroom, the screens are down. The teacher is able to help kids, as opposed to just delivering the content, and students enjoy and benefit from the deeper dive that their teachers can take with them.”
