Flipping the Classroom for Students with Special Needs – Our Presentation, Tools and a Case Study

Flipping the Classroom for students with special needs - ATIA 2013 - Flipped classroom - Special Education We recently presented our ideas and current work on “Flipping the classroom for students with special needs” at ATIA 2013. As we have posted previously, the flipped classroom has been making some big waves in the last year in both K-12 and in higher education. We’ve been working on this initative and wanted to share our resources so that we can generate ideas and discussion in this new and growing area.

In our session, we challenged the notion that the benefit for flipping the classroom for students with special needs lies solely in the “ability to watch the content over and over again” within the online tutorials that teachers can use to create materials. While we feel that online tutorials are beneficial for individual needs for many reasons (ex. a highly visual approach can be used to present content) we feel that other benefits stem from the fact that the classroom can become a more interactive, collaborative and authentic place for learning. Using David Thornburg‘s concept, we approached flipping the classroom for students with special needs with his idea of “doing things differently vs. doing different things.”

Essentially, flipping the classroom has enabled us to use new technologies to “do things differently,” such as using interactive screencasting for delivering content to students that they can pause and replay. However, we wanted to take it a step further to assess if technology is actually helping us “do different things” in our classrooms rather than just making our classrooms a little different. A great example of this would be using interactive screencasting for visual support and multi-modality learning and then focus classroom time on social skills training.

Flipping the classroom for students with special needs – Presentation at ATIA:

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Flipped classroom for students with special needs – List of tools:

We also presented tools that can be used for flipping the classroom from three perspectives:

  1. Those that can be used outside of the classroom only (content curation and interactive screencasting)
  2. Those that can be used both inside or outside the classroom (screensharing, interactive polling) and
  3. Those used mainly for use inside the classroom (digital storytelling, blogging/microblogging, concept mapping).

We created a handout that you might want to use as a quick reference:

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Flipping the classroom for students with special needs – Case study:

Lastly, we prepared a case study on flipping the classroom for students with special needs using a specialized approach for students with learning disabilities in the area of math problem solving and financial literacy. We merged a research-based approach with tools for flipping the classroom to create an example of what a lesson plan could look like. Our case study is embedded below:

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We enjoyed discussing flipping the classroom for students with special needs and the great feedback we received from our colleagues at the conference (ATIA is always a great experience!) Please post your thoughts below, we would love to get the conversation going!

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4 Responses to Flipping the Classroom for Students with Special Needs – Our Presentation, Tools and a Case Study

  1. Duncan Edwards March 5, 2013 at 5:01 am #

    Hi,

    I hope you will excuse me for this comment on your blog rather than an email but I have created a new bookmarking site for parents of children with special needs. You can submitany links you like that are newsworthy to fellow parents. The site also automatically bookmark news stories and new posts from relevant bloggers.

    If you want your site to the auto bookmarking, just email me. I need your RSS feed. For wordpress sites it is [your domain name name]/feed.

    I have set up a special twitter account that will tweet all the bookmarks and news automatically. Please follow @forspecialneeds if you are interested.

    Best wishes

    Duncan
    (Dad to a child with Dravet Syndrome)

  2. behzad May 27, 2016 at 4:22 am #

    iwant to know more abou it

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