FLIPPING AWESOME TEACHING
  • My Flipping Blog
  • My Flipping Method
  • My Flipping Classroom
  • Articles/Media
  • Contact Info

February just flipping sucks

2/10/2019

0 Comments

 
         It is winter in New England. 
         As Facebook has been reminding me with "Your Memories" notifications the past few days, the past several years have brought some hefty snowstorms to this area. I have blogged earlier about the detrimental impact of snow days even though you might think that flipping would make school attendance irrelevant. Au contraire!  2019 has been nearly bereft of snow around here, while the Midwest and Northwest have suffered most of all. Last year we got slammed in March, so I am not yet declaring the end of winter.
          We have 1 more week before February Vacation . That is my only full week of vacation of the entire calendar year. We go to DisneyWorld and I switch my brain off (as much as possible) as  soon as we enter the taxi to the airport. I don't do any lesson planning or educational research and I have no control about timetables, transportation, or anything else for the next several days ... as a control enthusiast, I welcome the short brain break. It's really my only week off of the whole year, because I'm also productive during the summer.
​         However, I have to work a little extra hard before the vacation week to make sure that I have a good wrap-around plan to work for the days before & after. It doesn't help that the week after February Vacation is pockmarked by an assembly, NAEP testing, and a math placement test. Waah, waah, whine, whine, you don't really care about all that. 
           
         Without boring you, dear reader, with all the details ... here are the 3 project options I will offer students on Wednesday as we wrap up a unit about the executive & legislative branches:
Picture
         I will allow students to arrange their own groups (yikes!), or pairs, or working independently. That's what Wednesday's class period will be about. I have to be flexible to account for potential snow days after the vacation week, and because some students leave early or arrive late from wherever they go. (Well, I will be absent on the Monday afterward because that's our travel day, so I can't really complain.)

         The upshot is this: no flipped lessons for almost a month between the most recent one (due Tuesday Feb 5th) and whatever I assign in early-March. Is that heresy?! No, just reality.

0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Picture

    Who is this flipping guy?!

    Andrew Swan is in Year 19 of teaching middle school (8th-grade US Civics/Government in a Boston suburb). Previously he has taught 6th, 7th, and 8th grade English, US history, geography, and ancient history in Massachusetts and Maine. 
      This is Andrew's 6th year of flipping nearly all his direct instruction, so we have more class time for simulations, deep discussions, analyzing primary sources, etc. ... and also to promote mastery for students at all levels.
      His 8th-grade daughter, 10th-grade son, and wonderful wife all indulge Andrew's blogging, tweeting, & other behaviors. These include co-moderating the #sschat Twitter sessions and Facebook page.
      ​
    Andrew does not always refer to himself in the third-person. 

    Twitter: @flipping_A_tchr
    Instagram: aswan802

    Categories

    All
    Analogies
    Assessment
    Asynchronous
    Bloom's Taxonomy
    Critiques
    Curriculum Planning
    DBQ
    Definitions Of Flipped
    First Days Of School
    #flipblogs
    Flipping Problems
    For Beginners
    FTEC18
    Grading
    Historical Thinking
    Homework
    In-class Flipping
    Local History
    Making Videos
    Mastery
    Parents
    Projects
    Reflective Blogging
    Research
    Schoology
    Snow Days
    Special Ed
    Student Centered
    Student Survey
    #ThisisWhyIFlip
    Troubleshooting
    Writing

    Archives

    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014

    RSS Feed

Proudly powered by Weebly