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House Co-Sponsorship Memoranda
House of Representatives
Session of 2013 - 2014
Regular Session
MEMORANDUM
| Posted: | January 30, 2013 11:32 AM |
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| From: | Representative Cherelle L. Parker |
| To: | All House members |
| Subject: | Flipped Model of Education (HR 610 of 2011-12 Session) |
| I am reintroducing legislation (former House Resolution 610) to direct the Legislative Budget and Finance Committee to study the "flipped classroom model" of educational instruction as a potentially effective approach to educating students, particularly in low-performing schools. The resolution will also direct the committee to identify low-performing schools that the Pennsylvania Department of Education could invite to participate in tests of the model. The flipped model of educational instruction utilizes a flipped class structure, or reversed educational model. Instead of the teacher lecturing in the classroom and assigning homework, students watch pre-recorded videos of lectures while outside the classroom and then work on "homework" assignments in the classroom with the assistance and support of their teacher. Such videos are posted on the school's website and students are able to view them at various locations made convenient and accessible by the school, such as the school library or computer lab during extended hours. The Clintondale High School, a low-income school located near Detroit, Michigan, has utilized the flipped model of educating students with rather noteworthy results. The school has reported significant decreases in student failure rates, along with considerable decreases in student disciplinary incidents. Flipping yielded dramatic results after just a year, including a 33 percent drop in the freshman failure rate and a 66 percent drop in the number of disciplinary incidents from the year before. Graduation, attendance and test scores all went up, and parent complaints dropped from 200 to seven. As such, this innovative model of teaching holds great promise for improving educational and disciplinary outcomes at Pennsylvania's low-performing schools, and deserves to be studied in more depth. Indeed, the flipped model may provide a level playing field for students in all neighborhoods to better learn, achieve and succeed, regardless of their socio-economic status. Please join me in sponsoring this legislation. Thank you for your consideration. Previous co-sponsors: BRADFORD, GROVE, JOSEPHS, MYERS, KIRKLAND, PRESTON, THOMAS, WATERS and YOUNGBLOOD |
Introduced as HR105