Home | How It Works | Stats Login | Register         Case: The Upside-Down Model In today's classrooms, we want to teach students to become self learners and discover the knowledge they have within. One way to do this is the Upside-Down model. This is also called the "You-We-I" method. Using this method, you give students a problem or task that you haven't taught and see if they can use prior knowledge to figure it out. I really like this model because it shows me what students know before teaching. I also like to see the strategies they use while working. The hard part for me is keeping those students that don't know where to begin or that don't know it so they won't do it on task. How do I keep these students engaged in the activity? Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) I think that re-assuring students that any guess is a good guess could work in keeping them engaged. Also, maybe alluding to the lesson on prior days so that even the students who don't have any background knowledge can try with some context!