I also use the technique 'ticket out the door'
 
Using index cards, students answer three questions before leaving class;
1.  What were the 'three takeways' or things three things learned in today's class.
2.  Do you have any question(s) that were not answered from today's class
3. What was unclear or 'still muddy' from today's class.
 
In the following class, these cards are handed back to the students' with my responses.
If I note a commonality of unclear content, I will speak to in the following class, as well as any insightful question(s).
 
May seem a bit time consuming, but I was surprised at some of the insightful things students have mentioned.
 
Dianne
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 7:51 PM, Dean Parmelee <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
A neat thing to do just as the first or second session is ending is hand out index cards to
every student and ask them to write the name of a teammate who contributed the most to 
their education that day and in one or two sentences write what it is he/she did.  They hand
these in, you type up the responses for those that got comments and send it to them.  The next
session will have everyone paying attention how they might help the other.  Low tech/high yield.

DP

On Jan 5, 2011, at 5:50 PM, Hager, Lisa wrote:

I teach a two-semester Research Methods sequence and my students are staying in the same teams for the entire year. This is only the 2nd time I’ve used TBL in the course and most of my teams are getting along well, although a couple of teams are having some personal problems. I wanted to start out the semester by having them reflect on how their teams can work well together. I don’t want it to be a session of people telling other team members what they need to be doing but instead want it to be a session where everyone reflects on what worked well for the team, how each person could be a better team member, etc. I have a list of the Facilitation Strategies using the ORID summary technique and thought some of those questions could be modified for the purpose. For example:
 
What were the high points of your team work?
When did your team feel most challenged?
What part of the team work left you feeling skeptical or frustrated?
What are ways in which you can improve as a team member?
What parts of the team process are you most concerned about?
 
If anyone has any other suggestions then I’d love to hear them. I’m thinking that I will have them write brief response to the questions (maybe before they come to class the first day) and then have them share them.
 
Thanks,
Lisa
 
 
 
Lisa D. Hager, Ph.D.
Chair, Division of Social Sciences
Professor of Psychology
Spring Hill College
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