TBL-ers:
Let me vouch for what Bill & Tine say about the *beauty of Vancouver Island*.
My wife and I had the pleasure of visiting them there this past summer
- and the juxtaposition of the mountains, forests, and sea was a great big
"WOW". After our return home, I only-half jokingly told my son: "If I
ever go missing, you should keep in mind Vancouver Island as a good place
to start looking for me." :-)
Dee Fink
On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 5:33 PM, Bill Roberson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Good Afternoon, TBL colleagues,
>
> Last year, two of us longtime TBL users (Bill Roberson and Tine Reimers)
> from the teaching center at SUNY-Albany (now led by TBL’er Billie
> Franchini), moved to British Columbia to take positions at Vancouver Island
> University, in the Centre for Innovation and Excellence in Learning
> <https://ciel.viu.ca/>. Since our arrival, we’ve been busy setting up a
> new TBL support operation, the *Vancouver Island Team-Based Learning
> Institute*, mirroring the *TBL Academy* we helped develop at UAlbany
> beginning back in 2008.
>
>
>
> We are pleased to announce that, as of this past September, our first
> cohort of *15 new TBL adopters*, all faculty members here at VIU,
> successfully launched their first TBL courses.
>
>
>
> For our upcoming December (9 & 11) offering of the *Vancouver Island TBL
> Institute *we are holding a few seats open for non-VIU guests. If you
> know of colleagues looking for this kind of opportunity, we invite you to
> share with them this information.
>
>
>
> The price of the program is modestly set for “cost-recovery” only, and
> there is the added bonus of guest participants having a legitimate pretext
> to travel to “*The Island*,” one of the most picturesque regions of North
> America, with a surprising, year-round mild climate. We’d recommend that
> participants plan to bring their hiking boots, camera and binoculars, and
> spend a few extra days here (Yes, even in December!) to take advantage of
> so much beauty <http://www.vancouverisland.travel/regions/>.
>
>
>
> An overview of the TBL Institute can be seen below in the promotional
> blurb we use for this program to recruit new TBL adopters at the VIU
> campus; more details of the agenda can be found on the application page:
> https://survey.viu.ca/Guest_2015_TBL.survey.
>
>
>
> Let me know if you have questions.
>
>
>
> *Bill Roberson*, PhD
>
> Curriculum, Teaching and Learning Specialist | Centre for Innovation and
> Excellence in Learning
>
> Vancouver Island University | 900 Fifth Street, Nanaimo, BC V9R 5S5
>
> 250.753.3245 | [log in to unmask] | B305 - R512-E
>
>
>
>
>
> *Vancouver Island TBL Institute*
>
> *Transform Your Classroom with Team-Based Learning*
>
> December 9 and 11, 2015 in Nanaimo, BC, Canada
> <http://www.hellobc.com/nanaimo.aspx>
>
>
>
> The evidence is growing worldwide in support of the Michaelsen-Knight-Fink
> Model of Team-Based Learning (2004). TBL is a teaching strategy that clears
> a path toward greater student independence, self-awareness, and personal
> responsibility for learning. It works in any discipline, with any content;
> with beginning students as well as advanced students; in large classes as
> well as small classes. The key? A coherent set of learnable teaching
> protocols that ensure alignment of cognitive and social forces for
> increased student motivation, applied learning and critical thinking. TBL
> is now broadly in use at institutions of higher learning on several
> continents, with measurement data consistently showing high gains in
> student achievement and low rates of attrition.
>
>
>
> *Fifteen of our own VIU colleagues* recently took the plunge to adopt
> TBL, and many of them report that they are already experiencing increased
> classroom energy and greater student investment in their own learning.
> Their ongoing TBL experiments at VIU are happening in fields as diverse as *Writing,
> Math, Art and Design, History, Resource Management, Geology, Electrical,
> Hospitality, Recreation and Tourism, Marketing, Management *and*
> Experiential Learning*.
>
>
>
> The VIU Centre for Innovation and Excellence in Learning is now sponsoring
> a new cohort of TBL adopters for implementation beginning in the Spring
> 2016 semester. The Institute will take place on December 9th and 11th with
> independent work required on the 10th of December. The *Vancouver Island* *TBL
> Institute* is designed to take you through the process of transforming a
> traditionally taught course into a TBL course. This event is geared for
> instructors who will implement the TBL approach beginning in January 2016.
>
>
>
> For more information about TBL, please visit the TBL Collaborative
> <http://www.teambasedlearning.org> or peruse LearnTBL
> <http://learntbl.ca/what-is-tbl/>, the collection of resources provided
> by Jim Sibley at UBC.
>
>
>
> Dates: December 9 and 11, 2015, 8:30 AM – 3:30 PM, plus pre-institute
> readings and a substantial course development assignment between meeting
> days of the Institute. To apply, please provide us with your information at
> https://survey.viu.ca/Guest_2015_TBL.survey.
>
>
>
> Questions? Please contact Bill Roberson
> <https://ciel.viu.ca/bill-roberson> ([log in to unmask]), Curriculum,
> Teaching and Learning Specialist, Vancouver Island University
>
>
>
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