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Spring into success with Team-Based Learning 2013

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Join colleagues at the TBL workshop scheduled for Tuesday, March 26 from 12:30pm to 5:00pm, GEB A104. Click here to register for the session.

Previous UTHSC programming has focused on explaining team-based learning (TBL) and highlighting its benefits for application in health professions education. This workshop is designed for faculty currently using or implementing TBL, and extends beyond basic understanding of TBL methods.  Using a TBL structure, participants will be placed in teams to simulate the readiness assurance process and too discuss cases that address important TBL challenges such as peer evaluation, team assignment, team teaching, and facilitation skills.

Schedule:

12:30-1:00 Lunch

1:00-1:05 Welcome and Overview

1:05-2:20 This Works for Me / My TBL Experience

  • Mark Bugnitz – TBL in pediatric residency training
  • Ann Nolen – TBL in occupational therapy
  • Vicki Park – TBL in Medicine & published in MedEdPORTAL
  • Mark Scarbecz – TBL in dentistry
  • Trevor Sweatman & Chasity Shelton – TBL in an interprofessional session

2:20-2:30 Break

2:30-4:30 Workshop

  • Facilitators: Drs. Andrea Franks & Michelle Farland

4:30-5:00 Q&A / Wrap-Up / Discussion

Faculty who’ve tried TBL overwhelmingly stick with it because of how well it works for the type of content and students of today. Come learn more about TBL from and with your colleagues.

Team-based learning at Stanford.

Team-based learning at Stanford.

Continued Prompts to Lose the Lecture

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A January 1, 2012 NPR Feature describes how Physicists Seek to Lose the Lecture as Teaching Tool. This is not new news – at least for many people it won’t be new news. Some people, however, find it interesting that physicists and faculty who teach in the “hard sciences” are coming to the conclusion that for the delivery of all course content, lectures are missing something in the return.

The article refers to Joe Redish who leads a Physics Education Research Group and a Biology Education Group. Here’s a link to Redish’s University of Maryland bio.

The article also talks about Eric Mazur, a well-respected Harvard Physicist. Mazur has a website that describes a lot of what he does in education research – including Peer Instruction and technology use in education.

David Hestenes is also discussed as an early pioneer in identifying what did and didn’t work in physics instruction. Some of Hestenes’ work is linked from this page. Several instruments he’s developed with others are available on that page for download and use.

There’s been a lot of interest in active learning strategies in the past couple of years (versus what is typically seen as passive strategies associated with listening to lectures). While we’ll devote some space to the positives of lecture (the lecture is NOT dead) in a future post, for now here are links to some sites that have good information about active learning:

Take time to explore a couple of the above links. What strategies do you use in your classes that reflect active learning? What strategies might you start incorporating that will encourage students’ engagement in their education?
Centre for Active Learning, University of Gloucestershire

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