About Me and My Classroom

Hello! My name is Frantz and I am currently in my 5th year of teaching. I have taught high school math and science until this year when I got moved to middle school. I currently teach 8th grade Honors Math (Algebra 1), Pre-Algebra and 8th grade Science at a pretty awesome school district in the middle of Michigan.

I have heard so much about Flipped Classrooms and had two teacher friends of mine give it a try, both in high school (Geometry and Chemistry). They both had nothing but good things to say about the switch so I have decided to give it a try!

I am starting with my 8th grade Honors Math class and committing to at least one chapter of flipped-ness. We use Holt Algebra 1 for our textbook and I am so impressed with all the resources available (that are not only amazing, but very differentiated!).

We are on Chapter 5- Linear functions. I have a lot of resources, knowledge and ideas for activities on this topic and I am excited to have this be the first chapter I try this with. My students are actually using the videos that the book supplies- Dr. Burger is pretty cheesy, but does a great job of explaining the topics and the videos are very well done. There is options for CC, a picture of Dr. Burger and him actually writing stuff down, a nice tutorial section, objectives and key words down at the bottom.

Like you might imagine, my students are very motivated and pretty intelligent. The school district I teach in is progressive and my students' parents tend to be very educated and supportive of teachers and their classrooms. My students are passionately curious and most are very excited about this opportunity. There are a few smarty-pants that are bummed that they will actually have homework, since they tend to complete the book work sometime in school, but still intrigued by the idea of having fun in math. I am so excited to get this started and see what awesomeness comes from this new idea!