Let me to take this opportunity to shamelessly promote the next TBL book coming out (relevant here because of its subtitle):  Team-Based Learning in the Social Sciences and Humanities: Group Work that Works to Generate Critical Thinking and Engagement

The book will hit the streets January 20, but available for pre-order here: http://stylus.styluspub.com/Books/BookDetail.aspx?productID=280921

It has a chapter linking Critical Thinking literature to the practices of TBL, and is edited by Larry K. Michaelsen and some hack crony of his.

-M

Michael Sweet, Ph.D.

Director of Instructional Development, Center for Teaching and Learning

MAI 2206  |  Mail Stop G2100  |  (512) 232-1775  |  http://ctl.utexas.edu

From: Team-Based Learning [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Kubitz, Karla
Sent: Friday, December 02, 2011 8:47 AM
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Subject: TBL and Teaching Critical Thinking

Hi all,

I just read an article in the November Faculty Focus newsletter that discussed Brookfield’s new book on teaching critical thinking.  The article is entitled Teaching Critical Thinking: Are We Clear and it was written by Maryellen Weimer.  I thought you might be interested in the listing below of ‘times in a course when critical thinking is most important’.  Several of them match up quite nicely with what TBL requires of students during well-designed application exercises.  Karla

•          When skills and knowledge have to be applied in the real world

•          When independent judgment is needed

•          When alternative interpretations and perspectives are possible

•          When actions and decisions need to be informed

•          When rapid judgments are called for

•          When students are encouraged to see themselves as knowledge generators  ( from November Faculty Focus, Weimer, 2011)

Karla Kubitz, Ph.D., FACSM
Program Coordinator, Exercise Science

Department of Kinesiology
Towson University
8000 York Rd
Towson, MD 21252
410-704-3168 (ph)
410-704-3912 (fax)