Kinesthetic or tactile learning is a learning style in which students carry out physical activities to gain information, rather than passive activities such as listening to a lecture or watching demonstrations. For students who are kinesthetic learners, moving helps memory happen. A kinesthetic learner has a hard time learning through traditional lecture-based classes. To put… Read More »
Category: Flipped Learning
Teaching Insights from a Teacher Who Thrives in Our Micro-School
Our guest blogger is Casey Ikeda (on the right working with English teacher Jacob). Casey, a Seattle native, is in his second year teaching at LEADPrep. Although he went to school in San Francisco, his huge extended family tugged on his heart strings and brought him back to the city he loves! Like many Seattle… Read More »
Are We Asking the Right Questions?
Educators we are constantly asking questions: of our students, parents, and selves. But Alfie Kohn, a thought leader in education, feels that we might not always be asking the right questions. He feels that many of the questions educators ask are based on incorrect assumptions. For example, teachers from time immemorial have asked the question,… Read More »
Flipped Over Flipped Learning 3.0
Yes, LEADPrep has proudly flipped instruction since opening in 2013. We use what the industry would call Flipped Learning (FL) 1.0. Recently, I became aware that FL has been evolving with the help of great minds, including educational thought leaders, university professors, researchers, and teachers from around the world. It has become a global initiative… Read More »
Benefits of a Micro-School
LEADPrep is a micro-school. We know what a micro-school is, but what are the benefits? Here are just a few: Personalized curriculum A micro-school is able to personalize the curriculum to the needs and abilities of individual students. There is less reliance on external data like standardized testing and more on learning about the student… Read More »
The Student-Centered Classroom
We use a lot of educational buzz words when we talk about how kids learn at LEADPrep. You hear terms like STEM, project-based learning, design thinking, place-based, flipped learning, and many others. The most important thing you need to know about LEADPrep is, that at the center of all the jargon, our model is focused… Read More »
Flipping Bloom’s Taxonomy
Bloom’s Taxonomy creates a hierarchy to classify different types of learning. In many classrooms teachers provide space for remembering and understanding and send the students home to apply and analyze on their own. Traditionally a teacher’s responsibility was simply to ensure that students were introduced to, understood, and remembered information. Flipped learning fundamentally changes the… Read More »
The Definition of a Flipped Classroom
The clearest definition of flipped learning that I have seen comes from Robert Talbert on the website Flipped Learning Global Initiative. His definition: Flipped Learning is a pedagogical approach in which first contact with new concepts moves from the group learning space to the individual learning space in the form of structured activity, and… Read More »
