Leigh Osofsky (North Carolina; Google Scholar), Flipping School rooms in an In-Particular person World (JOTWELL) (reviewing Heather Discipline (UC-San Francisco; Google Scholar), How the Pandemic Flipped My Perspective on Flipping the Tax Legislation Classroom, 19 Pitt. Tax Rev. 267 (2022)):

On this illuminating article, Heather Discipline describes her adoption of a flipped classroom mannequin for instructing tax regulation throughout the pandemic. Like many, Discipline discovered classes from her pandemic instructing that may proceed to be instructive now that we’re (hopefully) again to an in-person instructing world. Discipline’s considerate article is effectively value a learn for these (like me!) eager to do extra with flipped classroom instructing. …

Discipline’s flipping of lessons concerned offering college students before-class mini-lecturettes, which gave college students an summary and clarification of the fabric. Class time was then spent going by means of issues, doubtlessly with polls and extra bonus issues added in to the category to higher gauge pupil understanding. General, her expertise was a constructive one. College students appreciated the chance to overview the content material at their very own tempo and doubtlessly revisit it, college students had extra time in school to work on issues, Discipline was higher in a position to direct college students to the vital elements of the course, weaker college students have been in a position to take part extra absolutely within the class, Discipline might cowl harder materials rather more effectively, and Discipline had the chance to suppose extra rigorously although all her explanations of the course materials. …