Members of the Team-Based Learning (TBL) listserv:
We just learned that JANE CONNOR, a professor of Psychology at
SUNY-Binghamton, received the 2002-03 Chancellor's Award for Excellence
in Teaching at that university.
She
attributes a major part of her success to her use of team-based
learning.
Part of what is remarkable about this is that she achieved this level of
excellence in classes with 400 students! Here is what she had to
say about this:
- "What has me so excited about the teaching and team-based
learning is the transformational nature of the teaching that I have been
able to implement on a large scale. ...To give you a sense of things:
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The undergraduate advisor in the School of Education and Human
Development interviewed 16 applicants for the positions of "peer
advisor" and asked them: "What class has had the biggest impact
on you since you have been at BU [SUNY-Binghamton]?" Of these, 11
named my class - this from a lecture hall course which currently enrolls
400 students."
If you want to contact her, her email is:
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We have asked her to write up a synopses of what she does with TBL in
this very large class setting so we can post it on the TLB website under
"Successful Uses of TBL."
She also
mentioned that there will be a chapter about her teaching in a book
coming out this fall called Dialogue Education at Work: Case
Studies, edited by Jane Vella (Jossey-Bass, due out October,
'03).
Our congratulations to you, Jane! We look forward to reading in more
detail about how you use team-based learning in a this especially
challenging kind of teaching situation.
Dee Fink
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