Dear Tricia,

I'm guessing that problem is that you are asking for the wrong kind of a deliverable because you aren't using 4-S assignments. The metaphor we often use for good assignments is that of a jury. They need to make a decision--guilty or innocent. There is no way to divide up that task--the only way to reach a decision is to talk about how the evidence relates to the case. One place to read about 4-S assignments is <http://cit.duke.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Essential_Elements_of_TBL.pdf>.

Larry


On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Bertram Gallant, Tricia <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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



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