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Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic and the immediate shift to online learning for higher education and K-12 created an immediate need for conversations surrounding acceptable online pedagogy. This chapter focuses on how higher education instructors, specifically teacher educators, can use a flipped classroom approach to structure course content and prepare pre-service teachers to teach online using both synchronous and asynchronous virtual teaching strategies. Elements of the flipped classroom include creating engaging teaching content; assigning low-stakes, incentive viewing tasks; using formative assessment to clarify and provide feedback; and classroom application to make content meaningful. A vignette of a teacher education course redesign outlines how the model was used both to teach course content and prepare future teachers to implement the strategy in their own classrooms.