Duane,

I'm convinced that no matter what you do, you'll never be able to get everyone to buy into TBL. Unless you have other colleagues in the College of Business who practice TBL, you are attempting to single-handedly undo years of programming about what learning is and what their role is in the process. For some, you aren't doing your job unless you're talking most of the time. For others, you may be talking too much. I certainly see that in my teaching evaluations. I even had one student comment that my teaching had a polarizing effect on people. The reality is that we don't teach a homogeneous group of students, particularly at large state schools such as yours. I find that the students who genuinely want to learn greatly appreciate the TBL approach.

However, one thing you may want to try is to reserve ten minutes at the end of class to have everyone identify at least one thing that they learned from a classmate, discuss what they have learned, and then ask if that learning could have been possible in a pure lecture format. You could then close with a discussion about your role as a facilitator, not a teacher, in the learning process.

Cheers, Tom

On 1/24/2011 3:48 PM, Stock, Duane R. wrote:

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I just received end of semester student evaluations for fall 2010 semester. Some students did not “buy into” the TBL theory of teaching.

I did my best to explain the justification for using TBL during the first week of class.

More specifically, I used

1.)    the process described in the attached document

First-Day Questions for the Learner-Centered Classroom

by Gary A. Smith (National Teaching and Learning Forum, Sept. 2008)

and

2.)    the video from U. of Texas (http://magenta.cit.utexas.edu/largeclasses/#tbl)   .

Still, some students think they should be lectured to every class and, also, think they are being short- changed by a professor that uses TBL.

I have interacted with Larry Michaelsen over the years and have watched the videos at

             http://tblc.camp9.org/TBLVideos

Please advise me of things besides the above that will make students better “buy into” the TBL process.

Thanks in advance.

Duane Stock

Professor of Finance

University of Oklahoma

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