Rebecca Torchia is a web editor for EdTech: Focus on K–12. Previously, she has produced podcasts and written for several publications in Maryland, Washington, D.C., and her hometown of Pittsburgh.

Shannon Atkins, a math teacher at Fountain Valley High School, explains about a teaching method she has where she flips the classroom. A flipped classroom is a method of teaching where lectures and ...

DUBUQUE, Iowa (AP) — Dubuque Senior High School students circulated Angie Bishop’s classroom, graph paper in hand, during a recent honors Algebra 2 exercise. The students traveled from table to table, ...

Most people can probably relate to this scenario from their time as a student. You spend an hour in class, listening to a teacher or professor lecture, then get home, get out your homework assignment, ...

A flipped classroom flips the traditional teaching model on its head. Instead of spending class time listening to lectures, students are introduced to course content before coming to class. This can ...

Students are satisfied with flipped classroom when they have systematic guidance on the teaching approach in use, comprehensive understanding of both the content being taught and the discipline more ...

When astronomy lecturer Michael Faison taught the large lecture course “Planets and Stars” last spring, he became frustrated at the lack of student engagement in the class: Although one-third of the ...

Ten years ago two Colorado chemistry teachers unleashed a brash concept on a K-12 landscape where few questioned the age-old formula of lecture, homework, assess, repeat. It was the early days of ...

DURHAM – It’s not exactly a magical portal connecting a country manor to the forest of Narnia, but the pass-through door between classrooms 126 and 130 in Duke Engineering’s Wilkinson Building has ...

The feeling would crop up every so often. Robert Talbert would get the nagging, unsettling sense that the lectures he gave in his Calculus courses just weren’t sinking in. “I kind of felt like there ...