These responses have all been so awesome. I really feel the community at play here.
Go us!
:-)
-M
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From: Team-Based Learning [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Richard Sabina [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2011 2:18 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Questions to Pose for Reflection
Lisa:
Here is another, albeit more involved suggestion. We incorporated reflective writing into a 7-week course offered to undergraduate pre-med students this past summer. Similar to the approach many take with peer evaluation, students were introduced to reflective writing and its uses in biomedical education during the first class meeting and were provided with formative feedback in mid-course and summative feedback following the last posting.
Briefly, students were required to submit three 500-1000 word on-line postings (weeks 2, 4, and 7) that tracked their TBL experiences and how their attitudes towards TBL evolved during the course. In two postings students were asked to reflect in private on their formative (week 2) and summative (week 7) TBL experiences. In fact, the prompts provided ahead of the formative posting were very similar to your examples:
Week 2: Team Based Learning (Private Forum)
The purpose of this posting is to create a 500-1000 word reflection on your experiences with team based learning in the class during the second week. You are writing this to document your attitude and raise issues and perspectives about the experiences for yourself and your instructors.
Consider the following questions:
What was the activity this week? What were you supposed to learn from it?
Who was involved in your team and what contribution did team members make?
What challenges came up? How did you address those challenges, turn them into teachable moments, or suffer from them?
How did the team approach contribute to or detract from your learning experience?
How has your experience evolved since the beginning of the semester? How can you personally improve the experience?
The other posting (week 4) had students share their reflective writing in a public forum in the form of creative nonfiction, imagined diary entries from alternate perspectives, and narrative poetry. An unexpected outcome following this posting was on-line chat between students.
At any rate, we came away with the impression that reflective writing can be an engaging forum that promotes healthy team dynamics. I would be glad to provide more details, if you are interested. Best regards.
Rick Sabina, PhD
Biomedical Education Program Director
Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine
Rochester, MI 48309
(248)370-2755
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 5:50 PM, Hager, Lisa <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
I teach a two-semester Research Methods sequence and my students are staying in the same teams for the entire year. This is only the 2nd time I’ve used TBL in the course and most of my teams are getting along well, although a couple of teams are having some personal problems. I wanted to start out the semester by having them reflect on how their teams can work well together. I don’t want it to be a session of people telling other team members what they need to be doing but instead want it to be a session where everyone reflects on what worked well for the team, how each person could be a better team member, etc. I have a list of the Facilitation Strategies using the ORID summary technique and thought some of those questions could be modified for the purpose. For example:
What were the high points of your team work?
When did your team feel most challenged?
What part of the team work left you feeling skeptical or frustrated?
What are ways in which you can improve as a team member?
What parts of the team process are you most concerned about?
If anyone has any other suggestions then I’d love to hear them. I’m thinking that I will have them write brief response to the questions (maybe before they come to class the first day) and then have them share them.
Thanks,
Lisa
Lisa D. Hager, Ph.D.
Chair, Division of Social Sciences
Professor of Psychology
Spring Hill College
4000 Dauphin St.
Mobile, AL 36608
(251) 380-3055
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