1. MAINTAINING RIGOR IN AN ADVANCED FLIPPED CLASSROOM AKA “KICKING BUTT WITH GRACE”
DENA K. LEGGETT, PHD
ADVANCED CHEMISTRY TEACHER
ALLEN HIGH SCHOOL
Twitter: @denakleggett

2. FLIPPING MY WORLD
A short story of a headlong rush into an entirely different approach to education.

3. THE BIG PICTURE

4. THE TENSION IN THE TEACH
Maintaining rigor to prepare for a very difficult test
Providing opportunity for “grade protection”

5. DAILY LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
THE PAYOFF
AP TEST
TESTS
QUIZZES
DAILY LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
Assess
Assess, relearn
Learn
THE INVESTMENT

6. MY GRADE BREAK-DOWN DAILY QUIZ LAB TESTS 10 % total Roughly 1 % each

7. A QUESTION OF TIME

8. TIME PER VIDEO Goal is no more than 10 min per video
Students prefer shorter clips – it’s a “mental” thing!
Provide greater flexibility for curriculum changes

9. TOTAL TIME PER 85 MINUTE BLOCK
Hmmm…8: :43 + 6:33….
43 min and 20 sec
SAY WHAT???

10. The big win: efficiency of learning
RATIONALE
For a 5 day unit there are three days of working, one day of lab, and one day to assess.
135 minutes of direct teach would likely be 270 minutes sitting in a college class.
For every 45 minutes of videos, students get minutes of time in class to do learning opportunities WITH HELP!
The big win: efficiency of learning

11. EMBRACE YOUR LEARNING!
Using objectives for self evaluation

12. Objective charts (thanks Jen Gray!)
OBJECTIVES
C/F/IDK
LO 4.5 The student is able to explain the difference between collisions that convert reactants to products and those that do not in terms of energy distributions and molecular orientation
Explain the three premises of Collision theory
Use the three premises of collision theory to justify changes in rates of reactions
Confident 
Fuzzy
I don’t know 

13. Objective charts Use to drive teaching Use to design quizzes and tests
GOAL: Students will be using these daily to self-assess learning
Students use these for test corrections (more later!)

14. Self-assessing learning
Webassign
Automatic feedback
Unlimited submissions with no penalty
Free Response/Inquiries
IF: Check using posted key & stamped THEN: 100 %
IF: Not checked & stamped THEN maximum 90 %
A Few Labs
IF: grade with rubric using key THEN: bonus 10% for learning and feedback
Otherwise I grade and won’t be able to return before test.
Working on integrating Nspire/Navigator activities.
YBCT

15. A word about cheating:

16. A word about daily accountability:

17. A Common Educational Myth: “There are no second chances”
Discuss why not doing Mastery for AP chemistry
A Common Educational Myth: “There are no second chances”

18. Quizzes
KEY: Students can retake for up to an Considering a 90 next year or a mini-mastery approach of 100  90  80  70
Most are multiple choice
Nspire/navigator or any e-response system should work
Testing new classroom management system, but concerned about cheating when on computers
Currently using test banks – not ideal but time time time!
I use Nspire/navigator’s for grading and evaluation

19. Tests Students have option to do test corrections.
Test is weighted once, corrections weighted once.
( )/2 = 65 which is recoverable
Multiple choice they fill out a form.
Free response they simply re-work or re- answer

21. LATE GRADES A bit controversial but….
School policy is we must take work one day late for a maximum of a 60.
I believe there are hard deadlines and soft deadlines in the real world.
This year: -5 pts each calendar day late
Next year: thinking about increasing the penalty each day

22. BONUS OUTCOME OF POLICIES
PARENT BUY-IN
ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT
Once parents know the policies, all eyes turn towards student
Every principal in school backs me when students are failing – they know it was the student’s choice and that they had amply opportunity.