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
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