Hi Lori Ann,
Teams of five work well in my courses (social work clinical practice) to promote active involvement of all team members and that if someone drops the class,
a team of four also functions well. My classes are typically ~20-25 students, occasionally fewer.
My experience differs from Andy’s, in that I have found TBL to work well even with two teams. I agree that forming new, smaller teams at this point is worthwhile.
Good luck!
Liz
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Hi Lori Ann,
For what it’s worth . . .
I’ve been using TBL for over 20 years. I typically have classes of 35-45 and always use 5-person teams (occasionally a couple teams will have 6, or someone will drop and a team of 5 becomes a team of 4).
I agree that teams of 8 (and even 7) are too large (and allow for ‘social loafing’). Class size is not an excuse. I once had a class of 250 - I formed 42 teams of 6 people each.
For several reasons, I don’t think TBL works well with fewer than 4 teams. I once had a class of 16 and formed four teams of 4 people each. That worked pretty well, but these days with a class that small, I treat it as a seminar and don’t
use TBL.
I agree you still have time to completely reform your teams in this course.
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Lori Ann – I had to have teams of 8 one semester due to the room size and arrangement – I had no choice – and it was horrible. Eight people on a team is too many. So, yes, I would highly recommend you regroup
and reform teams. If they’ve only met 1 or 2 times as a team, you still have time to shuffle! If you formed teams based on specific criteria, you might look at the make-up of the teams and ask specific people if they’d be willing to go to a new team (I do
it by email ahead of class time so as not to put anyone on the spot), or you can simply reassign and have new teams as they come in. But, I highly recommend getting your teams down to 5 and 6.
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I just started a new course and on the first day of class, there were fewer than 15 students. So I formed 2 teams of 7 students, thinking that some of the students would
drop. But alas, no students have dropped and there are now 16 students. We have only had 1 class thus far. Monday is my second class. Should I leave the teams the way they are and just add the 2 new students to the existing groups or should I create a third
team, pulling some students from team 1 and some from team 2. The only thing the new team would have to do is create their own code of ethics.
My concern though with creating the third team is that if someone does drop the course, at least one of the teams will then go down to 4 members. Thoughts?
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