Hi Tricia,

I’m afraid I can’t offer you a sample that would serve as a model for an ethics class, specifically… but I can suggest that if you ask a single application question (a specific choice question, mind you) at a time, you tend to defeat the divide-and-conquer method used by students to finish the activity quickly.

That said, I also encourage you to attend the TBLC meeting in March of 2014, for which we have already have more than a couple of exciting abstracts submitted for workshops that will help you tweak and improve your TBL application activities.  Pardon the shameless plug for the conference.

Cordially,

Peter Clapp

Assistant Professor

Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy
Rueckert-Hartman College for Health Professions
Regis University
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Denver, CO  80221-1099

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From: Team-Based Learning [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Bertram Gallant, Tricia
Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2013 3:46 PM
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Subject: ethics team application activities

Hi folks - 

I implemented TBL for the first time this term in a "personal ethics at work" class (business school) and it's not going as well as I had hoped, and I think largely due to the fact that I didn't have good application activities for the teams. The ones I created (e.g., case analyses to apply knowledge) seem to have encouraged the teams to not work together but have individuals do different parts of the case analysis on their own; in other words, they do not talk about it, debate it and come up with a team decision before the report out. 

Does anyone have a sample that they would be willing to share of a really good application activity that I might find helpful as a model for an ethics class? I think I'm having trouble envisioning what it would look like so that I can effectively design them for each of my 6 course units.

thanks in advance,

Tricia