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There are more variations in teaching methods utilized in the Flipped Classroom.  This is effective and comes with a lot of complaints from some students because they say they feel like they are teaching themselves.  What most don't understand is that they are actually learning.  Flipping the classroom depends on the instructor's technical skills and the level of assistance needed.

Teachers in early education are interacting often and explaining with repeated information to the students, and when watching, you can observe the drive that the young student has to know more.  A great opportunity for the Teacher to develop questions, and when they understand, the children climb the stairs of knowledge.  I love to see this enthusiasm.

Before asking the question figure out what you are looking for in the response. Consider asking a follow up question to dig deeper and truly test the understanding of the student.

Making sure you give the students time to come up with a good well formulated answer is key to asking questions.

Providing a mix of new and old technology can help students just because each person retains info differently.

Do not over lecture the students and give the students a good opener and make sure to give a good review for the last 10-15 min of class.

I learned that you don't need to be stuffy and standoffish when presenting yourself as a teacher. I will use this to dress and act like a professional in the areas of expertise that i will be teaching while trying to make learning an enjoyable and fun experience. I plan to set forth expectations of myself and those for my students from the start in order to obtain a smooth problem free experience from the start to end of curriculum being taught.

I learned that by listening to my students I will learn where I can improve or make changes in my career. My career is new in teaching and I learned that I will develop a method of teaching as time goes on.

A piece that stuck with me was from the first video when the instructor said: "Do not try to show the class how smart you are because there is always someone smarter. 

I teach composition, so feedback is especially important to me and to the flow of the class. I also have always used and explained the 'sandwich' method, but making the feedback easier to digest sometimes takes me too long. Instead, I tell them what's wrong, how to improve it or provide a revised example. 

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