Hello,

I’m hoping for some helpful advice.  I tried the grade weight setting exercise as described in Team-Based Learning and demonstrated in Larry Michaelsen’s video.  My class did not react at all the way Michaelsen’s did.  There were some good discussions but I could not for the life of me get the non-task force members to be quiet.  The task force was dominated by two talkative members.  Task force and class alike argued rather than negotiated.  I didn’t leave enough time to do the exercise but we were not even able to set the overall distribution within 25 minutes.  We ran out of time with some people quite upset and the impression that I had lost control of the situation.   I’m willing to dedicate another class period to this but I’m not sure what I need to do differently to get a better result.  Any advice for how to better moderate the process?

Thanks for your time.

Laura Bird