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How I Flipped My Classroom In All the Ways That Matter - Part 1 (of 4)

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[This past summer (2018) I had the opportunity to present at two different Indiana Department of Education Summer of eLearning conferences; the South Shore eLearning Conference hosted by School City of Hammond and the eVillage Conference hosted by East Porter County Schools in conjunction with eLeadNWI. The presentation that easily received the most buzz was my " How I Flipped My Classroom In All the Ways That Matter ." This blog entry is the first in a four part series outlining the contents of that presentation.] For years, the underlying structure of each day in my classes was essentially the same; go over questions from the previous assignment, lecture over the new lesson, and give students the next assignment. Lather, rinse, repeat. And repeat. And repeat. And repeat... And I kept doing it this way for far too long because that was how all of my math classes were when I was in school. That was basically how all of the math teachers I knew taught their classes. Tha