Book Description:
"Includes all the wisdom, inspiration and practical advice needed to implement TBL in the classroom."―Jane Connor, Professor Psychology, SUNY Binghampton
This book describes team-based learning (TBL)--a powerful and versatile teaching strategy that enables teachers to take small group learning to a whole new level of effectiveness. It is the only pedagogical use of small groups that is based on a recognition of the critical difference between “groups” and “teams,” and intentionally employs specific procedures to transform newly-formed groups into high performance learning teams.
This book is a complete guide to implementing TBL, across a wide variety of disciplines, in a way that will promote the deep learning all teachers strive for.
Part I covers the basics, beginning with an analysis of the relative merits and limitations of small groups and teams. It then sets out the processes, with much practical advice, for transforming small groups into cohesive teams, for creating effective assignments, and thinking through the implications of team-based learning.
In Part II teachers from disciplines as varied as accounting, biology, business, ecology, chemistry, health education, and law, describe their use of team-based learning.
Part III offers a synopsis of the major lessons and tips derived from the experiences of the teachers who have used TBL, as described in Part II.
About the Author:
Larry K. Michaelsen is Professor of Management at Central Missouri State University and is David Ross Boyd Professor Emeritus at the University of Oklahoma, a Carnegie Scholar, a Fulbright Senior Scholar, and former Editor of the Journal of Management Education. He is active in faculty and staff development activities and has conducted workshops on teaching effectively with small groups in a wide variety of university and, corporate settings. Dr. Michaelsen has also received numerous college, university, and national awards for his outstanding teaching and for his pioneering work in two areas. One is the development of Team-Based Learning, a comprehensive small-group based instructional process that is now being used in over 80 academic disciplines and on over 200 campuses in the US and in eight foreign countries. The other is an Integrative Business Experience (IBE) program that links student learning in three core courses to their experience in creating and operating an actual start-up business whose profits are used to fund a hands-on community service project.
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