Episode 25 Reaching Every Student with Jon Bergmann

Jon Bergmann is considered a pioneer in the Flipped Class Movement. He is leading the global flipped learning movement by working with governments, corporations, and schools. He has worked all over the world and is the author of seven books including the bestselling book: Flip Your Classroom which has been translated into 10 languages. He is the founder of the global FlipCon (now RESCon) conferences which are dynamic engaging events which inspire educators to transform their practise through flipped learning. Jon also co-founded the Flipped Learning Network, a non-profit organization which provides resources and research about flipped learning.Reaching Every Student with Jon Bergmann is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.Join the Facebook CommunityIntroductionDan: Hi everyone and welcome to another episode of the effective teaching podcast. Today I am interviewing John Bergmann. John can you just tell us a little bit about what you're currently doing cause I know things have changed for you lately. Jon: Yeah. So I've got this weird privilege that, you know, had this crazy opportunity, really humbling opportunity to travel the world, tell people about how Flip Brain changes everything. And I really felt that I was called back to the classroom. So here I am standing in my classroom, where I teach five classes, every day to students. And, enjoying every minute of it. Dan: That's so good to have someone who is such a leader, to actually then step out of that in one sense, to get back into the classroom, to actually put into practice all those things you've been teaching us for so long. Can you tell us a bit about where you see the future of the Flip Learning going? Cause I know recently we talked about you changed the name of it, for example, into Reaching Every Student. The future of flipped learningDan: So, where do you see the future of Flipped Learning going from where it is at the moment? Jon: Yeah, I mean, at the heart of good learning, I think all of us, all of your listeners know the heart of good learning always comes back to the one key word. I would say, relationships. If kids don't know that you care, they won't care, what you know, right? So it's important to connect with students. And so the most powerful thing about Flip Learning by far is definitely the opportunities, the additional time that you have, where you can connect with students. And to me, that is the heart and soul of what makes Flipped Learning work. Dan: It's definitely been my experience with Flip Learning. I noticed when I started doing it, my relationships with my students got a lot deeper. I really knew where they were at and what their next steps were, and I knew more about just their personal interests and stuff as well. Jon: Yeah, you get to know, not only, I mean, certainly you get to know their cognitive understanding or lack thereof, but also you get to really get to know who they are. There's just additional contact time and additional contact time leads to interesting conversations. It's like yesterday I had some students, we were having a conversation and, you know, Mr Bergmann is very unaware of popular culture. I've always been this way. And they were talking about some singer and I said, "So who is this person?" And they said, "Really Mr Bergmann? You don't know who that is?". I said, "Yeah, and there was this guy coming through recently. His name was K Something West". And they said, "Who's K West? Oh, Mr Bergmann, you don't mean Kanye West."So I couldn't remember what this guy's name was, he's apparently a very famous singer. Dan: Yeah, he's a bit a little bit famous I would say yes, but not necessarily for good reasons though, I don't think. Jon: Well, I don't keep up with that stuff. Keys to a more effective flipped learning classroomDan: So, what do you think are the key things that you need to do in a Fl..