TBL 101 Preconference Workshop
Wednesday, March 4
Thompson Conference Center, Room 2.110
If you don’t know a RAT from a clicker, you won’t want to miss TBL 101, a pre-conference workshop from 2 until 5 on March 4th that will show you what everyone’s going to be talking about. Dean Parmelee, associate dean for academic affairs and professor of psychiatry at Wright State University’s Boonshoft School of Medicine, will provide an overview of the Team-Based Learning (TBL) instructional strategy developed by Larry K. Michaelsen.
You’ll get hands-on experience with the four essential components of TBL:
- establishing permanent, strategically-crafted teams
- managing the readiness assurance process
- developing group application exercises
- facilitating peer evaluation
If you’ve never used TBL, you’ll get the most out of the 2009 TBL Conference with this orientation to the philosophy, goals, and methods of TBL. Register today. You don’t need to feel like a greenhorn when you’re in Longhorn country.
Tracks
The 2009 conference continues the tradition of providing both a Fundamentals track and an Innovations track.
Fundamentals Track
If you are new to TBL, the Fundamentals track will ground you in the basics to help you succeed. Fundamentals workshops are scheduled sequentially, and include
- Writing Effective Multiple-Choice Questions
- Writing Effective Application Assignments
- Designing Effective Peer-Evaluations
- Facilitating Effectively in the TBL Classroom
Innovations Track
If you are familiar with TBL, the Innovations track will extend your thinking about TBL in many different directions. This year our Innovations workshops will follow four themes:
- TBL beyond the undergraduate classroom: from K-12 to graduate seminars
- Technology and TBL: from "clickers" to asynchronous, online TBL courses.
- A scholarly look: from TBL for critical thinking to publishing research on your TBL experience.
- From past to future: we'll be mining veteran's best-practices and expanding our conception of application exercises.
