Hi everyone - Thanks so much for all of your great suggestions. I'm always excited to learn about all of the innovative techniques other people are using in the classroom... - Mark On 1/25/2019 7:02 AM, Larry Michaelsen wrote: > In reading your description of the activities, I find myself wondering > about what happens during the RATs. If you are using IFAT's or some > other means of feedback on EACH decision, it is really rare when the > levelling effect doesn't carry over into the applications. The only > times I'm aware of when IF-ATs haven't worked have been when the RAT > questions were so easy that the talkative student was getting a > perfect score. The other aspect of the situation that is working > against you is that you don't have a simultaneous report from other > teams' to challenge the thinking of the assertive student and help > quieter students in this team find the courage to speak up. That is an > inherent disadvantage of having a single team. However, I've had > pretty good success with using a simulated simultaneous report (i.e., > answers from teams in previous courses) then defending the previous > teams' choices by voicing the logic they had used to justify their > choices. > > Larry > > ******************************* > Larry K. Michaelsen, Emeritus Professor of Management > Ásatún 42 #201, > Akureyri 600, Iceland > cell phone: +354 618-4517 > > For info on: > Team-Based Learning (TBL) <www.teambasedlearning.org > <http://www.teambasedlearning.org>> > ******************************* > > > On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 7:49 PM Mark Stevens <[log in to unmask] > <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote: > > Hi all - > > I'm currently teaching a 7-person class with a single team. I am > finding > that one of the students talks almost non-stop during the team > activities, and that 3-4 of the remaining students say almost nothing > because the talkative student doesn't give them much of a chance. The > talkative student is very knowledgeable and is usually saying > something > useful and on the right track, but I am worried that the other > students > will disengage and get frustrated. > > I always have my teams complete an ungraded midterm peer > evaluation to > provide constructive feedback to their teammates on their > behavior/performance, and the midterm comments always include some > combination of encouraging the talkative students to give quieter > students more chance to talk, and encouraging the quieter students to > talk more. As a result, I have found that the students tend to > balance > out the over/under talkativeness issues on their own via the midterm > peer evaluation comments, if not sooner. > > But in this case, my talkative student is SO talkative that I'm > not sure > I should wait another 3-4 classes for the midterm evaluation to start > the process of balancing the team out and I wonder if I should > intervene > in some way to help out. > > What do you all think? Do you think I should intervene (and if so, > how?), or should I leave it up to the students to find a better > balance > on their own? > > Thanks, > Mark > > -- > Mark Stevens, PhD, MCIP > Associate Professor, School of Community & Regional Planning > Director, Planning Evaluation Lab > University of British Columbia > 433-6333 Memorial Road > Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2, Canada > http://www.scarp.ubc.ca/people/mark-stevens > 604-822-0657 > > ######################################################################## > > 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. > -- Mark Stevens, PhD, MCIP Associate Professor, School of Community & Regional Planning Director, Planning Evaluation Lab University of British Columbia 433-6333 Memorial Road Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2, Canada http://www.scarp.ubc.ca/people/mark-stevens 604-822-0657 ######################################################################## 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.