The Flipped Classroom in the
Co-taught Setting
BY MAX ZENKER
Recently I was given the opportunity to conduct research on
the integration of the flipped style classroom into a 6th grade
co-taught classroom with my current caseload of students.
This is something that I’ve never tried before, and with the
help of my general education math teacher I believe it became
a huge success that will drive our instruction moving forward.
To set the stage, the procedure for my research was to split
my caseload of students that had math goals on their IEPs into
two inclusion math classrooms. One set of students (5
students) would learn a unit within the typical style classroom
that many of us are familiar with. The other set of students (4
students) would move into a co-taught flipped style classroom
for the unit. The data would be collected and compared.
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The toughest part of this research was learning what to
integrate into a flipped style classroom and then in turn
execute it. We used student response clickers within the
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classroom practice portions of class to see where students
math process
currently were performing and then in turn what areas we
need to improve moving forward. This worked very well, as
I’ve never before been able to get such great data from
students in live time. Another huge benefit for the students
was the lack of stress they seemed to have because they no
longer had practice problems to do for homework. The
homework would now be the learning target videos and the
notes they would take that went with them. This would be the
biggest piece that is encouraging me to keep this setting for
my students in the future. A lot of them struggle when they Bill Nye and the Flippe