Just in Time to Flip Your Classroom

TL;DR

This paper describes a practical approach to transforming traditional classrooms into flipped classrooms using a modified Just-in-Time-Teaching method, based on the authors' personal experience and a flexible procedure for educators.

Contribution

It introduces the flip-JiTT approach, a novel adaptation of JiTT that enables teachers to effectively flip their classrooms with a simple, replicable procedure.

Findings

The flip-JiTT approach successfully flipped the classroom in practice.

Teachers can adopt the flip-JiTT method with minimal additional resources.

The method enhances student preparation and engagement.

Abstract

With advocates like Sal Khan and Bill Gates, flipped classrooms are attracting an increasing amount of media and research attention. We had heard Khan's TED talk and were aware of the concept of inverted pedagogies in general. Yet, it really hit home when we accidentally flipped our classroom. Our objective was to better prepare our students for class. We set out to effectively move some of our course content outside of class and decided to tweak the Just-in-Time-Teaching approach (JiTT). To our surprise, this tweak - which we like to call the flip-JiTT - ended up completely flipping our classroom. What follows is narrative of our experience and a procedure that any teacher can use to extend JiTT to a flipped classroom.