Charles,
Just saw your request for examples of group problems in literature courses.
A few years back, Bill Roberson at U of Albany heard someone else ask this
same question and put together a short handout with some suggested
directions for generating such questions.
I have attached his handout.
Many thanks to Bill, who is copied on this email, in case you want to
contact him with follow-up questions.
Dee Fink
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 1:47 PM, Charles Dameron <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> I’ve been wanting to strengthen my active-learning activities in my
> sophomore literature classes, and the TBL approach provides a number of fine
> suggestions. I give frequent quizzes and have daily one-page assignments
> (called reaction papers) that I require students to complete, and I put them
> in groups during most class meetings to use their reaction papers to launch
> them into discussions of our reading in the literature courses I teach.
> However……. The purpose of these groups discussions isn’t focused enough, I
> have found, and I don’t have a really effective reporting out activity at
> the end.
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> I have read through the Michaelsen/Knight/Fink book on TBL, which is
> certainly stimulating, but I’m still wrestling with the issue of
> constructing group assignments that lead to productive reporting out
> discussions. Most of the courses that use TBL successfully appear to use
> case studies from a medical, legal, or business context. Have any of you
> developed case studies, or something along those lines, for literature
> courses? Are there literature faculty out there who are having good success
> with group discussions and then simultaneous reporting out?
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> Much thanks,
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> Charles Dameron
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