Scott,
That is incredibly impressive work that you are doing and that your
students are doing!
* Your ideas for having students publicly recognize peers who
contribute in special ways is very creative and insightful.
* The projects you have students working on are almost
unbelievable (I believe you, but it is amazing).
Two questions:
1. Are you in special school of high achieving students? Or are you
accomplishing this with "everyday" 7th grade students? (Either way,
it is impressive.)
2. In your description of the "basic format", you did not mention
having students follow the "individual pretest" of 15 questions with
a "team" version of the same test, which normally happens in TBL.
Do you in fact not use that part of TBL?
(This is not a criticism because you are obviously accomplishing
great things with whatever you are doing. But I am curious about the
sequence of activities that you do use.)
Thanks for sharing with us your use of TBL in the k-12
arena. Occasionally I/we get asked whether it will work there. You
have answered that with a definitive "Yes!"
Dee Fink
At 11:23 AM 10/16/2007, Scott Hovis wrote:
>It works great. I know lots of k-12 teachers that use problem based
>learning, but no one else using my real world team project approach.
>
>For example, our cell unit centers around finding a cure for cancer.
>
>The basic format is:
>1) Preview packet do in groups
>2) Individual Pretest (aprox 15 question scantron)
>3) Multiple mini projects: A) create a treatment for a human disease
>based on modifying organelle shape &/or function. B) Create a
>specialized stem cell that can repair specific heart attack damage.
>Describe how various organelles help the cell to do it's work in
>conjunction to surrounding cells, tissue, organs, & organ System. C)
>Final project is to propose a new cancer treatment using organelles
>that inhibits cancer by targeting mitosis.
>4) Final review packet in groups
>5) Final individual test
>
>Kids love it and are fully engaged in learning. It beats having to
>push information onto them.
>
>Scott Kubista-Hovis
>7th grade Life Science Teacher
>Hayfield Secondary School
>Alexandria, VA
>
>"Sweet, Michael S" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Scott,
>
>I see by your sig line that you teach 7th grade. There may be
>others, but you are the first K-12 teacher I have heard of using all
>the main pieces of TBL.
>
>What have you learned from adapting it to younger folks?
>
>The social pressures and social skills of younger students are no
>doubt different than adults. I am curious: has this made much of a
>difference?
>
>-M
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Team Learning Discussion List
>[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Scott Hovis
>Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 8:23 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Top Score Prize
>
>Individuals rate their team members during the peer evaluation. But
>I take the average for every member and place it on a scale. with a
>10 translating into a B-, and Higher scores sometimes translating
>into a 100% + extra credit.
>
>I also have leaders vocally recognize their top achievers for every
>major project (composed of 4-5 mini projects) at their culminating
>poster session , this translates into 1 homework pass.
>
>Another thing I do is I have a jar set out for every class. Students
>are encouraged to recognize peers who have gone above and beyond the
>call of duty in some way by writing their name & what they did on a
>slip of paper and putting it in the jar. All names are read out loud
>at the end of the week.
>
>Scott Kubista-Hovis
>7th grade Life Science Teacher
>Hayfield Secondary School
>Alexandria, VA
>
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