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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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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