Cause my classroom is beautiful, in every single way... or at least this differentiated grouping with the flipped classroom institute's guidance is!
I am on cloud 9 right now.
For the past week I've been basically doing the Flipped Classroom thing 100% (except the whole watching the lectures outside of class - until we figure out how to easily and repeatedly make them available to the class for free) including the pre-tests and differentiation afterwards.
Let me tell you - my days are almost boring right now. Almost being the key word. Why are they boring and why I am excited about it? Putting my students into differentiated groups and giving them the rule that they can't ask me a question until they've asked everyone in their groups means almost no one talks to me all class.
This has been awesome for individual remediation - walking around looking at their work and just letting them know this one step is incorrect or so, asking about their outside interests between problems, and mostly watching the confidence levels rise of the students who feel they are always the "dumb" ones being able to step it up within their group and be the smart one of that level.
Now as far as these groups go - the students are well aware that how they did on the pre-test determined their grouping. The groups are numbered according to the Marzano scale, so the students can judge where they started and where they are headed in terms of their knowledge of a learning goal.
I want to make a giant poster of "there is no shame in not knowing something you haven't been taught - there is shame in not learning more than what you came with" or something like that for my room since that is the motto I keep repeating - and it seems to be sinking in!
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