Welcome to the Afternoon Sessions of the Iowa State University University Teaching Seminar

1. Welcome to the Afternoon Sessions of the Iowa State University University Teaching Seminar Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT) Holly Bender CELT Interim Director of PFF

2. CELT is here to help you succeed in Teaching • CELT website http://www.celt.iastate.edu/ • links to many teaching resources, e.g. -where to publish scholarly teaching work -how to craft a great syllabus     -technology and teaching  -teaching grants -much more!   

3. CELT is here to help you succeed in Teaching! • Programming throughout each semester on teaching topics and technology • Monthly teaching and technology tips     • Bi-Annual newsletter     • Lending library on teaching     • One-on-one consultations • Preparing Future Faculty Program • Graduate Teaching Certificate program • Located on the 3rd floor of Morrill Hall

4. Essential Tips for SuccessfulTeam-based Learning Holly Bender, DVM, PhD, Diplomate, ACVP Professor, Veterinary Pathology Interim Director, Preparing Future Faculty Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning

5. Welcome New Faculty and TA’s! • How many TA’s? • Post Docs? • How many in first teaching position? • Not first, but less than 2 years of teaching experience? • Between 2 and 5 years? • Between 5 and10 years? • > 10 years?

6. Team-Based Learning • Powerful teaching/learning strategy • Could spend manyhours • Share a few key tips • My experience, some research • Demonstrate strategies to use in your classroom right away • Invite you to add your wisdom

7. Introductions • Holly Bender • Professor, Department of Veterinary Pathology • College of Veterinary Medicine • Interim Director of PFF • Team-based Learning • Case-based Learning • Share what works for me in classroom

8. A Little About Me • DVM, PhD, Diplomate ACVP • Veterinary Clinical Pathologist • Michigan State - DVM • Mixed animal practice • Residency - VT and UGA • Virginia Tech - PhD • Virginia Tech CVM faculty for 22 years • ISU for 8 years

9. Clinical Pathology (VPth 425) • Has been a favorite part of my job • (Besides faculty development seminars) • Developed over > 20 years • Laboratory medicine • Data interpretation • Hematology • Blood Chemistry • Urinalysis • Cytology

10. Laboratory Data Interpretation http://www.montgomerycollege.edu/wdce/hsipics/phlebotomy02.jpg

12. Stuart L. VandeVenter- ISU CVM Class of 2004 "Going to Vet School is like drinking from a fire hose; You'll never take it all in."

13. How to help students maintain focus? Overwhelming amounts of information They will care when patients arrive

14. How to help students maintain focus? How to help them care about essential information before it is an emergency While there is an instructor to support learning Practice solving problems in a lower stakes environment Yet high enough stakes so that they care enough to think about it Need to shift focus from me to students Need to make it fun and interesting

15. Team-Based Learning • How many have taught using teams? • How many have taken classes with teams? • Bad experiences? Concerns? • Successes?

16. Team-Based Learning • If set up correctly: • 1. High levels of attendance • 2. High levels of engagement and participation • 3. Encourages critical thinking • 4. Encourages collaboration

17. Today’s Agenda • Essential Tips • Break into teams • Practice exercises • Share techniques • Need a volunteer Count and divide by 7

18. Essential tips- summary • Make teams as diverse as possible • Keep same teams throughout the course • Give the students a voice in assigning weights of the components • Create exercises that include both individual and group accountability • Develop rigorous assignments that require team interaction • Use the 4 S’s • Have all teams work on the Same problem • Make it Significant to your students and your discipline • Students make a Specific choice • Simultaneously by all teams • Give course credit for outcomes that you want to reinforce • Complete team exercises in class • Encourage appeals • Have a peer evaluation component

19. TBL Community and Research • Great resources on Website • http://teambasedlearning.apsc.ubc.ca/ • See handout when get to team folder • Books • Team-Based Learning: A Transformative Use of Small Groups in College Teaching, edited by Larry K. Michaelsen, Arletta B. Knight,
and L. Dee Fink. Stylus Publishing, Sterling VA • Team-Based Learning for Health Professions Education A Guide to Using Small Groups for Improving Learning. Eds. Larry K. Michaelsen , Dean X. Parmelee , Kathryn K. McMahon , Ruth E. Levine, (2007) Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing • Team-based Learning: A Transformative Use of Small Groups in College Teaching. Eds. Larry K. Michaelsen, Arletta Bauman Knight, L. Dee Fink. (2004) Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing. Can access e-version through ISU library • 6 years of TBL implementation in Clinical Pathology

20. TBL adapted from Larry Michaelsen • Is now a national and international movement

21. 1. Make teams as diverse as possible • Teams should be heterogeneous • Students learn from other students • Diverse teams generate more alternative solutions • and better quality decisions. • Best learning comes from teaching others • Sort by a diversity that is meaningful to your class • In Clinical Pathology, it is career path • Students backgrounds vary accordingly • Process often sorts automatically by background

22. If you had to make a decision today… • Small animal practice • Food animal practice • Equine practice • Mixed animal practice • Research • Academic • Industry position • Government • Zoo or wildlife • Exotic companion animal

23. 1. Make teams as diverse as possible • Undergrad courses students often sorted by – • Major, • Year in school, • Previous experience • Anxiety about subject matter • # of credits taken

24. Let’s Model Forming Teams-ISU Colleges(need that count now…) • Agriculture and Life Science • Business • Design • Engineering • Graduate • Human Sciences • Liberal Arts and Sciences • Veterinary Medicine • Other

25. Team Folders • Once teams form, • Find sticker on seat • Arrange team stickers in circles, rectangles • Sit together every class • Works in large classes or small • Fill out team folder • Name, nickname • Associates names with teams for records • Excellent way to learn names • Please find a tent card in the team folder and write your name on it

26. Team Folders • Excellent way to distribute paper • Stuff papers in folder prior to class • A team member picks up at front table each class • Returns at end of class • Saves class time, reduces chaos

27. 2. Keep teams throughout the course • Teams develop cohesiveness as course progresses • Work out dynamics between members Aggressive vs. passive • Exercise design can support this

28. 2. Keep teams throughout the course • Stable groups outperform temporary ones: • Koppenhaver, G. D. and Shrader, C. B. Structuring the classroom for performance: Cooperative learning with instructor-assigned teams. Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2003, pp. 1-21. • Team size: Suggested size from 5-7 students Too small, not enough exchange Too big- tend to divide up into two smaller groups

29. 3. Give the students a voice in assigning weights of the various components • Helps students feel empowered in process • Fishbowl technique • Decide % weight • Individual score • Team score • Peer evaluation score • Can place limits • Some instructors spend a lot of time on this • Hint* Time it to happen 10-15 min before lunch

30. Setting grade weights • What are the ideal grade weights in your opinion? • Individual • Team • Peer evaluation • Discuss this in your group • Send a team representative to front

31. In past 20 years, over 99.95% of the teams have outperformed their best member by an average of nearly 14% In fact, the worst team typically outperforms the best student in the class! Michaelsen et al, 1989

32. 4. Create exercises that include both individual and group accountability • Clin Path: 2 quizzes on case homework • Students take quiz individually • Then take quiz as team • Individual student score assures accountability • Most of learning happens in team quiz • Students defend answer to teammates • All members of team gets same team score • Aggressive students learn to listen • Quiet students learn to speak up

33. 5. Develop rigorous assignments that require team interaction • Application assignments vary greatly by discipline • Community exchange via listserv and books

34. CASE Discussion 11

35. 5. Develop rigorous and unique assignments that require team interaction • Quiz • Read through case data • Take 5 point multiple choice quiz • Take first individually • Fill out bubble sheet

36. In the past…. • Paper quizzes • Bubble sheets • Lots of paper • Logistical problems • Technical problems

37. 5. Develop rigorous and unique assignments that require team interaction • Recently WebCT on tablet computers • 5 minute rule

38. Followed by quizzes on cases First take individually

39. Post on WebCT Students print to OneNote Mark up data Answer questions on WebCT

40. Follow by taking same quiz as team Students convinceeach other of rationale Lots of learning here Team grade and individual grade

41. Significant Problem Same Problem Specific Choice Simultaneous Report 6. Use the 4 S’s

42. 6. Use the 4 S’s • Take again as team • Negotiate answers • Convince others of rationale to make specific choice • This is team score • This is where aggressive students learn to listen • Quiet students learn to speak up • One wrong answer away from doing so

43. Convene as a class and teams answer simultaneously 1 8 2 5 Draw team #’s out of jar Calling on teams Not as threatening as individuals Challenge various teams to defend their answers Helps students engage- help teammates Give them time to do so I purposely do not give them answers Teams convince each other Figure out key together 3

44. 6. Use the 4 S’s • Alternately for teams- Use If-At form-- scratch off correct answers • Immediate feedback

45. Team exercises with clickers Also can do clicker work I like to use one clicker per team ISU uses TurningPoint Clickers Great for reinforcing difficult points in class Now alternately a Web version Can be used on a laptop- over IP Or smart phone

46. 7. Give course credit for outcomes that you want to reinforce • So many complain that veterinary students are too “point oriented” • Veterinary students love points • Why fight it? • Give credit for what I value • Not necessarily a bad thing • I give credit for everything that I value • Hundreds of points in course • Students do the work

47. 8. Complete team exercises in class • Out-of-class team work encourages “divide and conquer” • Does not encourage team interaction • In class team work is more feasible for interaction • In class team work simulates a real-life decision environment

48. 9. Encourage appeals • See handout • If do not agree with instructor • 24 hours to appeal answer

49. 10. Have a peer evaluation component • Most have prior experience with free riders • Assures accountability • Best if anonymous • Developed online evaluation • Midterm practice, final counts • This will help eliminate “free riders” or “social loafers.” • Possible methods: • http://teambasedlearning.apsc.ubc.ca/?page_id=176

50. Acknowledgements • Dr. Larry Michaelsen, U of Central Missouri • Dr. Brad Shrader ISU, Business • Dr. Jim Sibley, University of British Columbia