Reverse Instruction: Dan Pink and Karl’s “Fisch Flip”

As the internet revolution continues to build and increasingly influence everything under the sun, so too it is going to have a massive impact on teaching and learning in K-12 schools.  Educators who don’t anticipate this change and work to ride the wave will be subsumed by it, I fear.

Quality instructional delivery for grades 5-12– lecturing, skill training, and modeling–  is especially vulnerable in our schools.  Increasingly on-line delivery is not just equal but superior, and often enormously less expensive, than what happens in our buildings.

To deliver true value in this environment demands we invert the norm, and one of the best developing models for this is called, I have learned recently, “reverse instruction.”  I believe I first heard the concept described at length at the NAIS Annual Conference last winter, when, if I recall correctly, a co-author of Disrupting Class, the excellent innovative educator Michael B. Horn, spoke about it.

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