Turning Teaching on its Head

This free professional development webinar by Freelance Educational Consultant, Teacher of 44 years, Teacher Trainer and Maverick, Jim Baker for all educators and educatees who wish to move into the 21st century. The live webinar is one-hour long and takes place on 17 March 1900 GMT. Slides and a video recording of this session will be available to all who enroll.

Turning Teaching on its Head

In his many articles, blogs and presentations Jim points out the folly of the conventional way of delivering information in class (something the students can do for themselves without the aid of the teacher) and then setting questions for homework when the teacher is not there but an activity for which the teacher is needed. In ‘flipped learning’ the students prepare for the lesson beforehand so the lesson time can be spent with the students doing questions on the prepared work when the teacher is there to help them. This lesson time is also spent with the teacher helping the students to ‘make sense’ of the work.

Conventional lesson, if a student misses a point early on in the lesson, the remainder of the lesson may not be fully understood. With ‘flipped learning’ a student can reread the passage or rewind the video as many times is necessary until it is understood (one cannot rewind the teacher).

In this session, we’ll look at ‘flipped learning’ and see how the platform ‘Twiducate’ complements it to provide for 24/7/365 learning.

About the presenter :

A Maverick

2015 - Contributory Author of ‘Teaching Secondary Science’ (Fourth Edition)

2014 - Consultant to Highgate Private School, Cyprus

2014 - Educational Consultant to Angel Digital

2013 - Member of GAB (Global Advisory Board) for NGGE (Next Generation Global Education)

2013 - Chemistry Expert for The Chemistry Journey Project for The Virtual School Initiative

2012- GTN Teacher Adviser

2012-2013: Freelance educational consultant with EM Direct on their Graduate Teacher Programme

2011- : Teaching AS/A2 Chemistry at SSPP

2010 - : Freelance educational consultant with EM Direct on their SKE programme.

2009 - 2011: An associate with LSN on their 'Starting Out Programme'

1974 - 2008: Chemistry teacher at Lincoln Christ's Hospital School. During that time, in 1997, I reached the final 13 in the Salter's “Chemistry Teacher of the Year” award and in my penultimate year of teaching, 2007, I was awarded a “Lifetime Achievement Award”. Upon retirement I was Deputy Head of Science in charge of behavioural management. In the 1990s our school was at the forefront of teacher training in schools and I was our school’s chief mentor and liaison officer with Sheffield Hallam University. After coaching other staff to take on that role, I became involved with mentoring NQT’s in Science.

1970 - 1974: Science Master, Lincoln School

Specialties: Providing resources for teachers and students.

Maximising students' learning.

Advising fellow teachers on 'what really works'.

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