Flipping Classrooms with Tim Selgrat

Flipping the classroom empowers students to take control of their learning process. It gives students a voice and choice in what they're learning and how they're learning it. Our guest, Tim Selgrat, is an educator who has used his background in basketball coaching to embrace the strategies of flipping the classroom and has seen how it pays off with students. Selgrat has been a technology teacher for almost two decades and has spent the last six years dedicated to STEAM and growth mindset. He views his classroom as a team, saying: 
“Good coaching is good teaching and good teaching is good coaching. So you want to put your players in a position to win. So really for me, I would try to position my players where their strengths are, and we build on those strengths.”
In this conversation, Selgrat explains that with flipping the classroom, students have on-demand resources and information at their fingertips. Students have the freedom to work at their own pace, taking ownership and their learning into their own hands. Selgrat describes how with this approach, he is able to let students work towards their strengths, and in doing so, students are able to be more engaged in learning. Some of the strategies for flipping the classroom include leveraging videos for instruction and also screen recording for student reflection. Selgrat discusses some of the tools and technologies that made it easier for him to make the transformation into a flipped classroom and his advice for educators hoping to do the same. Selgrat discusses some of the challenging parts of flipping the classroom and encourages teachers to be authentic, be yourself, and to trust your students. It can be intimidating for some, and he encourages teachers to jump in feet first rather than waiting for perfection. This approach is about giving up some control, opening up your classroom, and becoming a different kind of teacher.
Recommended Resources from the Interview:FlipgridSchoologyStory MakerG Suite/Google Workspace