We ran a 7-week summer course two years ago for undergad/post-bacs on the
Pathological Continuum of Obesity to Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus while we were
developing curriculum for our new med school. There were 9 registrants,
which we divided into two teams of 4 and 5. It worked out great!! Haven't
had time to offer it again, but we are planning to do so once things start
to settle down around here.
One thing that we found worked particularly well with this small class was
to have the two teams display complex solutions (for example, a concept
map) and have each team present to the other then receive feedback from
them. Sort of a modified gallery walk with the benefit of having enough
time to accomplish it effectively and completely.
Rick Sabina
Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine
Rochester, MI
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Sibley, James Edward <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> I helped with a grad research methods TBL class that had 3 students (1
> team)....we had hoped for 8....to get 2 teams
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> Not perfect but good questions and activities were still
> useful...instructor many times found herself in devil's advocate
> position...interrogating teams decision....kind of was socratic
> dialogue...as much as TBL
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> Small was NOT perfect....but still better than lecturing :-)
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> On 12-07-23 10:30 AM, "Preast, Vanessa A [SOE]" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> >Hello Fellow TBLers,
> >
> >In one of my graduate classes, only 8 students have enrolled. I am
> >thinking of having two teams with 4 students each. I'm reluctant to
> >divide up the class further since the teams would already be smaller than
> >the TBL ideal.
> >
> >Have you found that 2 teams generated good inter-team discussion for the
> >group activities?
> >
> >Best,
> >Vanessa
> >
> >______________________________
> >Vanessa Preast, DVM PhD
> >Post-Doctoral Research Associate
> >School of Education
> >Iowa State University
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