Five Reasons Against The Flipped Classroom

The implementation of the flipped classroom will bring the problems that the students cannot study in an effective learning environment, the students’ interests determine the learning achievements, and the testing and evaluation become difficult. First, the focus of the flipped classroom is to motivate the students to schedule the time on their own to watch the lessons online. However, not all the students will follow the routine to finish their work and focus on the sources they should learn. Jason Krueger, the author of “Five Reasons Against the

Flipped Classroom”, points out that “Flipping a classroom will encourage students to slow down their engagement of classroom material. This can have long term effects: students may begin to slow down their

The students might take a long time to finish one lesson and this will cause the ineffective use of the time. Second, the flipped classroom depends on the student’s self-motivation and this will cause the ineffectiveness of learning. Krueger says that “Some students are not as motivated as others, and this method of teaching may allow those less motivated students to get less done.”

In a traditional classroom, the teacher can motivate the students to answer questions and praise the students for their excellence. The teacher arouses the student’s interest and curiosity to explore and learn the knowledge. If students are told when they have done an excellent job, they will be encouraged to perform the good behavior in the learning. Inspiring and motivating the students will create a positive classroom atmosphere, and will help students meet the teacher’s

expectation and sandard. However, when the students watch the videos at home, they only can communicate with the screen and they cannot have immediate feedback from the teacher regarding their academic and behavioral performance. The students will lose the