Dear All,
To address the issue of time allocation, my colleague and I (co-teach
pathophysiology and pharmacology) assign a specific time to each
application. We divide the application to several shorter section (each
about 30 minutes).The count-down is shown on the large screen while the
students are working on their application. If the class as a whole need
more time then we adjust the time accordingly, otherwise when the timer
shows 5 minutes remaining that's when the students wrap up their
response. It works very well.
Parto
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California Northstate College of Pharmacy
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From: Team-Based Learning [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Dean Parmelee
Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 8:04 AM
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Subject: Re: Downtime between application and discussion
We've been happy with this procedure, like Bill's:
When 1/2 the teams are complete (indicated by flag raising), then there
are X minutes
remaining for the rest of the class. The X we have either set
arbitrarily depending on the
complexity of the topic area OR team vote at the beginning on a set of
options: 2 min, 5 min,
10 min. - this only takes a couple of minutes to do.
While I have listserve attention, let me share a facilitation tip that
we have grown to ask "why
haven't we done this all along?" It is the 'random' selection of
students to stand up and speak.
We use either pink pong balls in a box OR one of the cool new APPs for
iPAD or iPHONE
like 'Pick Me.' You can population the APP with team groupings and spin
to land on someone
new. Using this process of selection guarantees that everyone stays on
their toes, otherwise when
you ask for "someone answer this," most students relax since they know
an smart extravert will
jump for the chance.
Try it. You'll love it.
Dean
On Jan 19, 2012, at 9:17 AM, Brescia, Bill wrote:
We do not tell the students how much time they have. We use a "Done"
sign on a stand. When about 1/2 the teams have finished I announce that
they have 5 minutes to finish.
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On Jan 19, 2012, at 7:40 AM, "Chris Burns" <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
We typically do not tell students how long they have to complete
application exercises (or other group work) because they will use the
entire time, whether they need it or not. Getting the class together
before the allotted time is up can be nearly impossible. Instead we ask
students to work on the problem and use audience response clickers to
monitor progress in real-time with a slide that says "1. I am done with
the exercise". When most of the groups are finished, we announce a one
or two minute warning and move on. Students seem to appreciate getting
to the discussion efficiently.
Chris Burns
University of Virginia
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Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 08:08:16 -0500
From: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Downtime between application and discussion
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I've been using TBL in my developmental psychology classes for
the last few years. I am struggling with what to do when some teams are
done with the application activities before others. I typically let the
students know how much time they'll have to complete the activity, and
some teams take the whole time to complete it, while others don't. So
then I have students who are waiting for others to complete the
assignment so we can have our class discussion. I'd love to hear
suggestions for what I could have the teams who finish early do until
we're ready for the class discussion?
Krisztina
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Krisztina Varga Jakobsen, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology, MSC 7704
91 E. Grace St.
James Madison University
Harrisonburg, VA 22807
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Dean Parmelee, M.D.
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Boonshoft School of Medicine
Wright State University
Dayton, Ohio
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