Sandy,
I reward the best performing team, based upon average T-RAT
scores. The team with the highest T-RAT average (we generally do about 8-10 per
semester) gets a gift certificate to a local sandwich shop. This allows them to
share the prize and promotes team performance versus individual performance.
The students enjoy the competition element and also enjoy that it’s the
team competing against other teams and not individuals (which can get
cut-throat).
Sincerely,
Tom
Tom Cappaert, PhD, ATC, CSCS
Associate Professor, Athletic Training Education Program
Central Michigan University
1175 Health Professions Building
Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859
(O) 989-774-6595 (Fax) 989-774-2923
WWW: chp.cmich.edu/atep
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function."
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From: Team Learning
Discussion List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Sandy
Cook
Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 7:37 PM
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Subject: Top Score Prize
On an new topic, one of our faculty suggested that it is the
culture here to award Prizes to the top student. Since we feel that TBL
values teamwork and that prizes bring back the competition element - we really
thought it was not a good idea. As we discussed further, we flirted with
the idea that we could incentives the prize concept by making it be a
reflection of both team and individual work. The student's disagreed.
They thought that any prize would change the dynamics of the group work.
In fact, they came to our program because of the team and collaborative
experience and did not want the cut-throat team issues.
Any
one have ideas how you reward top students without undermining the teamwork
values?
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Sandy Cook, PhD
Associate Dean for Curriculum Development
Duke/NUS Graduate School of Medicine