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Members of the Team-Based Learning (TBL) listserv:

We just learned that JANE CONNOR, a professor of Psychology at
SUNY-Binghamton, received the 2002-03 Chancellor's Award for Excellence in
Teaching at that university.
         She attributes a major part of her success to her use of
team-based learning.

Part of what is remarkable about this is that she achieved this level of
excellence in classes with 400 students!  Here is what she had to say about
this:
"What has me so excited about the teaching and team-based learning is the
transformational nature of the teaching that I have been able to implement
on a large scale. ...To give you a sense of things:
             The undergraduate advisor in the School of Education and Human
Development interviewed 16 applicants for the positions of "peer advisor"
and asked them: "What class has had the biggest impact on you since you
have been at BU [SUNY-Binghamton]?" Of these, 11 named my class - this from
a lecture hall course which currently enrolls 400 students."
If you want to contact her, her email is: [log in to unmask]

We have asked her to write up a synopses of what she does with TBL in this
very large class setting so we can post it on the TLB website under
"Successful Uses of TBL."
         She also mentioned that there will be a chapter about her teaching
in a book coming out this fall called Dialogue Education at Work: Case
Studies, edited by Jane Vella (Jossey-Bass, due out October, '03).

Our congratulations to you, Jane! We look forward to reading in more detail
about how you use team-based learning in a this especially challenging kind
of teaching situation.

Dee Fink

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Instructional Development Program       Email:  [log in to unmask]
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University of Oklahoma
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Dee Fink's Website:  www.ou.edu/idp/dfink.htm