These responses (including the mix of mostly positive with a couple negative) sound very much like what I get/have gotten from my students every semester. It seems there are always a couple (sometimes more) that simply WANT to be lectured at and don't like that they have to 'teach themselves' so much. My impression is that the students who are most resistant are those who are actually "good students" in traditional classes and their resistance to TBL stems from the fact that they have largely figured out how to do well in traditional classes with minimal effort, to regurgitate whatever their teachers have said in lecture, but TBL forces them to actually think for themselves. I had one such student this semester who spoke to me about halfway through the semester and actually said, "I don't think it's fair that I have to take this class [it's required for majors] but you're the only one teaching it so I don't have the opportunity to take a 'normal' class. I get As in regular lecture classes and it isn't fair that my grade is going to suffer because of the way you teach." So I asked him, "But using that logic, how is it any more or less fair that a bunch of your classmates, who seem to learn better in this team environment, are forced to sit through lecture classes with other professors?" Of course he just stared at me in confusion...
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Thanks, Gail, I'm so glad you picked up on that. Two students actually mentioned this. I was thinking of a group share where a rep from each team forms a temporary group for research or TRAT then reports back to their permanent teams and have that rotate through each unit. It hasn't fully gelled so that's why I'm sharing with the group.
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 12:45 PM, FEIGENBAUM, GAIL <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Nice journal assignment and prompt, Herb. Interesting student responses as well.
I was thinking about one of the comments....that the student didn't know others on the other side of the room.........
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Since students have a large lab skill component, I often assign partners that are not team members....as students will perform skills on many different patients in the clinical setting.
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Austin Community College
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"Arthur: It would have to be a 747.
Cobb: Why is that?
Arthur: Because on a 747 the pilot is up top, and the firstclass cabin is in the nose, so no one would walk through. But you'd haveto buy out the entire cabin. And the first class flight attendant.
Saito: I bought the airline.....It seemed neater."
From the motion picture Inception
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAm_Cp3OKik
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Don't Think Small
"Arthur: It would have to be a 747.
Cobb: Why is that?
Arthur: Because on a 747 the pilot is up top, and the firstclass cabin is in the nose, so no one would walk through. But you'd haveto buy out the entire cabin. And the first class flight attendant.
Saito: I bought the airline.....It seemed neater."
From the motion picture Inception
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAm_Cp3OKik*************************************************