Five Reasons Against The Flipped Classroom

Since the beginning of time it has been tradition, when a student attends class they sit at a desk with an open notebook, a pencil in hand, quickly scribbling words while they listen to the teacher trying to get the lecture in within the hour. For some students, they can’t write fast enough to keep up with the quick lecture, or they need assistance with homework but don’t get it.

Traditional classrooms have been the only way of teaching for many years, until technology made an appearance. Since technology has become a hit, will teachers continue with favoring the traditional classrooms? Perhaps they will experiment and use the technology, although the traditional classrooms have many advantages, students and teachers would benefit from a flipped classroom, because the class would not be centered around the teacher.

When the class is centered around the teacher, the teacher tells the students precisely what to learn, the time frame to learn it, how to learn it, what assignments to complete to learn it, and to demonstrate that they have learned it. This way of teaching is affective, yet it causes students to be easily confused, frustrated, wanting to give up, especially when trying to do homework at home with nobody to help if needed. Students shouldn’t be expected to have conquered a subject after

Jason Krueger, Founder/President at StratoStar and author of “Five Reasons Against the Flipped Classroom”, writes about the disadvantages of flipping a class room. Krueger states that a variety of teachers are picking not to participate in the flipped classroom protocol because “this mode of operation relies heavily on the principle that students are self-motivated (Par.4). Teachers could assess where every student is in their education and could even group them appropriately, it would develop somewhat tricky to make certain every student is learning at a steady pace