Hello All, I am headed out in a few weeks, to do a "train the trainers" program at a forward-looking university in Colombia. One of the Associate Provosts at Universidad del Norte has obtained a national grant to develop some trainers who will work as consultants with faculty members in two departments - English and Math - at two different universities. The goal is to convince and enable these English and Math professors to make substantial, learning-centered changes in design of their courses and in their teaching practices. These trainers will have taken my online course on Integrated Course Design [which is available in Spanish]. But while there in person, I thought it could be useful to work with the trainers a bit more on how to use TBL as a good teaching strategy - IF that can be applied in a good way with English and math subject matter. *Question*: Does anyone have examples of how [and how well] this can be used with courses in these two disciplines? I know that traditionally: - *English *profs like to have students read a text and then have a whole class discussion of it. - Are there questions that can be used as good TBL assignments for a team to analyze a literary text, e.g., a novel or poem? - In *math*, the tradition is for the prof to work some problems in class at the start of a unit, and then assign homework lessons for students to work on. - Working math therefore always seems like a solitary, individual activity. - Again, are there good ways to create a TBL activity where teams discuss something about working math problems? Many thanks in advance for any help or ideas you can provide! Dee Fink -- *********************** L. Dee Fink 234 Foreman Ave. Norman, OK 73069 Phone/FAX: 405-364-6464 Email: [log in to unmask] Websites: www.designlearning.org [multiple resources on course design] www.deefinkandassociates.com [offer workshops & online courses] www.finkconsulting.info [Fink's consulting activities & publications] **Former President of the POD Network in Higher Education (2004-2005) **Author of: *Creating Significant Learning Experiences* (2013, Updated Ed., Jossey-Bass) **Senior Associate, Dee Fink & Associates Consulting Services ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the TEAMLEARNING-L list, please click the following link: https://lists.ubc.ca/scripts/wa.exe?SUBED1=TEAMLEARNING-L&A=1 Further information about the UBC Mailing Lists service can be found on the UBC IT website.