Flipped Classroom Activity Using the PTA Model in an Introductory Sociology Course

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Published: Feb 19, 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31719/pjaw.v2i1.19

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Lauren M Sardi
Quinnipiac University

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This scaffolded writing-to-learn activity incorporates a number of Writing Across the Curriculum-based suggestions that draw upon the strengths of student reflection, the PTA (prioritization, translation, and analogization) model of concentric thinking, and the benefits of a flipped-classroom approach to learning. Thus, the purpose of this article is to explain what one model for structuring a flipped classroom that purposefully integrates writing in the PTA model looks like and to provide a concrete example of a flipped-classroom activity that I have utilized in numerous introductory sociology courses.

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Sardi, L. M. (2018). Flipped Classroom Activity Using the PTA Model in an Introductory Sociology Course. Prompt: A Journal of Academic Writing Assignments, 2(1). https://doi.org/10.31719/pjaw.v2i1.19
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