Dear John,
There are a few benefits to keeping teams intact, but Iıve found team
effectiveness directly proportional to members knowing and understanding
team roles, not each other. After some serious time devoted to
understanding team roles and collaborative rubric building, I switch up
teams regularly with good success. I also require that whenever possible
students change team roles as they move from group to group.
Iım glad to share more with you if youıd like to contact me off the list.
Warm Regards and Happy Holidays,
Kevin
Kevin M. Johnston
Adjunct Professor
Southern Vermont College
Hunter Division of Humanities
982 Mansion Dr.
Bennington, VT 05201
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On 11/27/14, 7:56 AM, "Lane Brunner" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Hi John,
>
>You are facing a challenge that occurs when you use TBL across several
>courses to the same cohort of students. I can tell you from experience*
>that you need to keep the same teams. If you have the students try to
>form three separate teams simultaneously, they will not become effective
>teams. They will not develop the team "loyalty" that we see with teams
>from multiple courses. Some students will tend to disengage from one or
>more of the teams and work well with their "favorite" team.
>
>When you keep the teams across all classes, they will bond quite strongly
>and become a "team" much quicker that the traditional TBL literature
>reports.
>
>Give me a call if you would like to have a more detailed discussion.
>
>Lane
>
>*This occurred prior to my joining a college of pharmacy that tried the
>different team for each class approach for one semester. It was a
>disaster. One contributing factor may have been that everyone was new to
>TBL. The following semester, the students were kept in the same teams
>across all classes and they formed effective teams as expected.
>
>
>Lane J. Brunner, Ph.D., R.Ph.
>Dean and Sam A. Lindsey Professor
>Ben and Maytee Fisch College of Pharmacy
>The University of Texas at Tyler
>3900 University Blvd, ADM 358
>Tyler, TX 75799
>Tel: 903.566.7168
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>From: Team-Based Learning [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of
>Jackson, John Mark [[log in to unmask]]
>Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2014 11:48 AM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Switch teams or keep same teams: same semester
>
>We are facing this (quite welcome) issue for the first time: we have 3
>courses using TBL next semester for our 2nd year students.
>
>We at first thought it would be 2 courses, and my thought was to just
>keep the same teams for both courses. But a 3rd course will now be doing
>TBL, so I would like some opinions.
>
>All 3 courses will be taught in the same lecture hall, but not all on the
>same days (but 2 courses will share at least a day a week).
>
>Should we have them stay in the same teams for all 3 courses, or have
>them in unique teams for each course?
>
>I can see advantages both ways. I am mainly concerned about the logistics
>of having them shuffle around the lecture hall and have a hard time
>keeping up with which seats to go to for which courses. I do like the
>idea of them really getting to know their group well from team-building
>aspect, but I also like the idea of them learning to work with a variety
>of people.
>
>Thanks!
>
>JMJ
>
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>John Mark Jackson, OD, MS, FAAO
>Southern College of Optometry
>(901) 722-3314
>@johnmarkjackson
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