Implementing Team-Based Active Learning Strategies in Your Classroom
Presenters:
Sue Anne Chew and Hugo Rodriguez
Presentation Title:
Implementing Team-Based Active Learning Strategies in Your Classroom
Abstract:
As an educator, it is crucial for our students to not only understand the fundamentals and facts, but to be able to apply their knowledge to problems that will arise in their future careers. The incorporation of team-based active learning strategies can be used to accomplish this. By allowing students to learn the material before class through assigned readings and videos and using class time to reinforce the material and teach students how to apply their knowledge through active-learning strategies such as team-based learning (TBL) through problem-based learning (PBL) and case studies activities as well as through project-based learning. Through these pedagogies, students are challenged, through problems, to think critically and to apply the knowledge and tools they learned from the course to solve problems that may arise in their future careers. Students are trained to become independent learners, and develop time management, critical thinking and teamwork skills which are vital to their success as an undergraduate student and for their future careers. The objective/purpose of this workshop is to share strategies to incorporate team-based active learning in a classroom and to help participants plan a class/course that will encourage their students to learn how to apply their knowledge and become independent, life-long learners. The content will be delivered using a short PowerPoint presentation where the presenters will introduce different active-learning strategies and examples on how they accomplish these pedagogies in their courses.
- Familiarize yourself with individual and team readiness assessment test (iRAT and tRAT) and the utilization of immediate feedback assessment technique (IF-AT) scratch cards for tRATs
- Define the 4S structure of TBLs and how to incorporate TBLs in your classroom
- Plan how to incorporate TBL in one of your courses