Blog Post #9

As stated in chapter 10, the flipped classroom is a classroom where instead of getting a lecture in class and homework later, you watch or listen to the lectures at home and then discuss them in the classroom. I think this is a very interesting way of teaching. It puts a lot more pressure on the student to be able to watch the lectures, and then try and understand the information given. I think that it might also make learning easier sometimes, because you already have an idea of what is going to be happening in class. You also get to be in control of how you learn.

http://www.watchknowlearn.org

In the podcast it says that professional development is what teachers learn throughout their years of teaching. Before teachers would attend conferences and classes at colleges to learn new things. Usually they were already scheduled at a specific time even though that time might not be convenient for you. Today, these are still ways to develop professionally, they allow you to interact with different people and are a great learning experience.


Now there are a lot of other opportunities for teachers to learn new things by using technology. For example, Blog, or webinars. Blogs are very useful because when teachers blog about their classroom, they can give tips and tricks to newer teachers so that they can run their classes more efficiently. Webinars are also great because they are online and you can go on whenever you would like, which can make scheduling very easy. There are a lot of free websites that have webinars and go over new things regarding teaching.

http://blog.com

I really enjoyed this assignment. Since I want to become an elementary school teacher when I'm older this is a great skill to have. I can use a powerpoint like this to teach a lesson on anything, and they are very convenient. You just need to write up a few points you want to talk about and elaborate on them. I really liked how we were able to chooses whatever we wanted to put on the powerpoint because it gives us a lot of creative freedom to do what we would like with it, while also learning about the basics of powerpoint.