-I'm Aaron Sams and I teach science

here at Woodland Park High School.

My ultimate goal, I guess, as a teacher is to help

students become learners who can learn

for themselves and by themselves.

One of the problems that I was guilty of,

even prior to flipping my classroom around,

was the classroom was centered around me.

I told them exactly what to learn, how to learn it,

what assignments to do to learn it, and when to learn it,

and how to prove to me that they learned it.

I don't do that anymore.

We changed the place in which content is delivered.

Instead of standing in front of a class

and delivering-- here's how you do this type of problem,

here's how this worked-- I deliver

that direct instruction now asynchronously

at home through these videos that we

make with Camtasia Studio.

-Times [? till ?] whole.

-Oh, we didn't do that last time.

-Because the last step, they were already whole numbers.

We had one, one, and four.

Here, we don't have a whole number.

So here's a few little tricks when

you need to multiply by whole numbers.

If one of your numbers ends in 0.5,

you're going to multiply by 2.

-All right, something-0.5 times it by two.

Write this down, guys.

-If something ends in 0.33 or 0.66, you multiply by 3.

And when the kids come to class, they don't show up

to learn new stuff, they show up to apply the things that they

learn at home and to ask me questions

about the things they learned at home.

So now they can have my lesson, if you will.

What I would normally have stood up

and lectured to them in class with some added features,

they get that at home.

And then what they were expected to do for homework

is now what they do in my class.

Life is different for me, because I no longer

am the guy who stands up in the front of the classroom

and just yaks at a student for an hour

or however long the class is.

Now, I walk around the class and I help kids.

I'm a tutor, I'm a guide, I'm the putter-outer

of fires, whatever it happens to be in my crazy chemistry class.

I walk around and do that, I don't stand up front and teach

under the traditional model.

I'm Aaron Sams.

I'm a teacher.

I'm a dad.

I'm a husband.

And I love Camtasia Studio.