Good Morning,
Here's a reminder (the last one, I assure you) that registration for our TBL Academy at the University at Albany closes this week. Participants in this event join a small cohort for two full-day workshops that prepare TBL adopters on task design, course design, writing policies that promote buy-in, RAT construction, classroom management and peer observation, among other TBL course prep activities. For details, please visit our guest page at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/UAlbanyTBLAcademyAugust2013.
Bill Roberson, Ph.D.
Director, Institute for Teaching, Learning and Academic Leadership (www.itlal.org<http://www.itlal.org>)
University at Albany
State University of New York
Instructional Leadership Academy Dates: August 5 & 7, 9:30am to 3:30pm, including substantial assignments before and between the two dates.
As the fall semester approaches, so do the perennial challenges of university teaching, such as...
* Getting students to take more responsibility for their own learning
* Getting students to participate willingly and actively in class, without special rewards or coercion
* Inducing students to think and communicate at a higher level
* Ensuring that students prepare for class
* Getting more buy-in from students, so you're not the only source of energy and enthusiasm in the classroom
If these are the kinds of things you're trying to make happen in your courses this fall, we invite you to participate in the upcoming iteration of ITLAL's Instructional Leadership Academy: More Rigor and More Fun with Team-Based Learning. More than 100 UAlbany faculty members (and as many grad students who teach) now use some form of the Michaelsen TBL strategy. The principle? Design well and then get out of students' way while they figure things out! TBL is currently being used successfully at UAlbany in undergraduate and graduate courses, small and large classes, in areas as disparate as Computer Science, Public Health, Criminal Justice, Political Science, Math, Literature, Public Administration, Social Welfare, Information Literacy, History, Art, Physics, and Philosophy, to name just a few. This Instructional Leadership Academy will take you through the process of transforming a traditional course into a TBL course. More information on TBL can be found at www.teambasedlearning.org<http://www.teambasedlearning.org>.
Academy Dates: August 5 & 7, 9:30am to 3:30pm, including substantial assignments before and between the two dates.
Application Deadline: July 26, 2013. There are a limited number of seats for this Academy.
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