October

Modifying Team-Based Learning for Your Course

Fri, 4 Oct 2013 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

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Team-based learning (TBL) is an instructional strategy in which groups of students engage in a unique combination of activities that facilitate the development of learning teams. This workshop will focus on how JMU instructors adapted TBL to address a variety of challenges including: fixed-seating classrooms, larger classes, 50-minute classes, and diversity in student preparation. This workshop will also explore how TBL works in a range of disciplines. Facilitators will share the extent to which TBL activities addressed course goals, explore the impact of TBL on student behaviors, describe how they selected and organized teams, and address the circumstances that influenced the success of TBL strategies.

This workshop is designed for faculty to make progress toward the following outcomes:

• Engage in a readiness assurance process;
• Learn how TBL can be adapted to fit the challenges of their own courses;
• Explore the possibilities for assessing student learning; and
• Adapt TBL for use in their own course.

Facilitator: Andreas Broscheid, Ph.D, Department of Political Science

Facilitator: Samantha Prins, Ph.D, Department of Math and Statistics

Facilitator: Krisztina Varga, Ph.D, Department of Psychology

Facilitator: Stephanie Stockwell, Ph.D, Department of Integrated Science and Technology