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We still have a few guests seats left in the May 20-22, 2014 edition of our Instructional Leadership Academy: Team-Based Learning, at the University at Albany (SUNY). If you have colleagues who have shown interest in TBL, and who might want to learn this method  alongside other new adopters, we invite you to share this information with them. The academy fee is modest and is tax-deductible. For guest registration please go to https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/TBLMay2014Guest.

Instructional Leadership Academy, May 20 & 22

University at Albany, State University of NY

Turn Your Students into Independent, Self-Motivated Thinkers with Team-Based Learning

The Michaelsen Method of TBL (http://www.teambasedlearning.org/) is currently being used successfully at UAlbany by more than 200 faculty and Graduate  student instructors—in undergraduate and graduate, small and large classes, in areas as disparate as Computer Science, Public Health, Criminal Justice, Informatics, Political Science, Public Administration, Social Work, Information Literacy, Psychology, History, Statistics, Physics, and Philosophy, to name just a few. The May Academy will take participants through the process of transforming a traditional course into a TBL course.   Interested faculty members and graduate student who teach can register for this event at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/TBLMay2014Guest.

What UAlbany instructors are saying about TBL:

• This is the first time I have actually *seen* my students learning...It's really fascinating to experience.
• Not only did the students perform better than I would usually expect on the midterm exam, but a greater proportion of students seem to be…genuinely engaged…
• I couldn’t believe how good some of the discussion was – the majority gets it, and the discussions are good even when they get the wrong answer...
• It’s completely changed my classroom and my relationship with students.  I’ll never be able to go back to lecturing…

What UAlbany students are saying about TBL: 

• This is definitely my hardest class, but it’s my favorite class to come to because it’s made me more vocal…[TBL] helps you be able to really know what you’re talking about…
• I think the accountability factor in the way this class is designed really [helps]. People don’t do it because they’re simply going to get an A if they do it. You have to do it because the way the assignments are tailored in this class--you’re not just reading something and summarizing it. You actually have to understand the concept and put it into a coherent argument or critically apply it to something, which, that’s the real world and that’s how things work.

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