John Iąd keep then in the same teams across all 3 courses. They (and your faculty) will reap the benefits from the positive team dynamics forming sooner as they are working together on a regular basis. Our pharmacy students use TBL in most of their courses and stay with the same teams across these courses for the entire year, with positive results. We allocate them to new teams for subsequent years. We also carry out the peer evaluation process once, across all courses. The logistics for you and the students will be so much easier too Best wishes Simon ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Simon Tweddell BPharm MRPharmS FHEA Senior Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice Curriculum Development Fellow Centre for Educational Development University of Bradford Bradford United Kingdom BD7 1DP Tel. +44 (0)1274 235241 Email. [log in to unmask] Twitter: @simontweddell Skype: simon.tweddell Accredited Consultant-Trainer in Team-Based Learning On 26/11/2014 17:48, "Jackson, John Mark" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >We are facing this (quite welcome) issue for the first time: we have 3 >courses using TBL next semester for our 2nd year students. > >We at first thought it would be 2 courses, and my thought was to just >keep the same teams for both courses. But a 3rd course will now be doing >TBL, so I would like some opinions. > >All 3 courses will be taught in the same lecture hall, but not all on the >same days (but 2 courses will share at least a day a week). > >Should we have them stay in the same teams for all 3 courses, or have >them in unique teams for each course? > >I can see advantages both ways. I am mainly concerned about the logistics >of having them shuffle around the lecture hall and have a hard time >keeping up with which seats to go to for which courses. I do like the >idea of them really getting to know their group well from team-building >aspect, but I also like the idea of them learning to work with a variety >of people. > >Thanks! > >JMJ > >--------------------------------- > >John Mark Jackson, OD, MS, FAAO >Southern College of Optometry >(901) 722-3314 >@johnmarkjackson