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 »
Category: Flipped Learning
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 »