Wheeler, B. (2016). Team-Based Learning (TBL) Classrooms: Catalyzing Student-Centered Teaching and Learning (SCTL). Presentation at UMass Amherst College of Engineering student development workshop series.

1. Bradford Wheeler
Doctoral Candidate
College of Education
2/17/2016

2.  Discuss Student-Centered Teaching and Learning (SCTL)
 Show how Team-Based Learning classrooms foster SCTL
 Overview of Learning Theory
 Engage in some Active Learning Techniques used in TBL
classrooms to foster SCTL

3. UMass has fancy classrooms too!
This presentation focuses on what to do in
these spaces
But…you don’t need one of these to be
student-centered in your approaches!

4.  Micro-lecture

5. USING and APPLYING
ideas, skills and
concepts to new
problems

6.  What we focus on
 Social and
emotional
 How can I help
students focus on
what I want them
to learn?
 How can I facilitate
student interaction
in class?
Adapted from Doyle, 2008
“Helping Students Learn”

7.  Requires repetition
and elaboration
 Requires us to
organize our
knowledge
 Do my classroom
activities reward
practice?
 How do I structure
my class so
students learn
about their
learning?
Adapted from Doyle, 2008
“Helping Students Learn”

8.  How can I help students do more?
Adapted from Doyle, 2008
“Helping Students Learn”

10.  Teacher Driven
 Drill-and-Skill tasks
 Minimal student Interaction
 Practice outside class
 Slow feedback
 Rewards individual work
 Student Centered
 Team assignments
 Lots of student
Interaction
 Practice in class
 Rapid feedback
 Rewards teamwork

12. 1. Forms (formative assessment)
2. Clickers (formative assessment)
3. Think-Pair Share (classroom activity)
4. Gallery Walk (classroom activity)

13.  Readiness Assurance Tests (RATs) are helpful
as they encourage students to come prepared
to engage with course material.
 This is a form of “formative assessment”
giving the instructor insight into where
students are in the learning process
◦ iRAT = individual
◦ tRAT = team

14. 1) What town is UMass In?
A. Greenfield
B. Pittsfield
C. Amherst
D. Framingham
E. Holyoke
2) Mixing cyan and yellow
colors produces what color ?
A. Brown
B. Blue
C. Red
D. Green
E. Orange
3) Select the US President
A. A
B. s
C. oke
D. All the images are Obama
E. There is no image of Obama
4) What is the absolute value of
2+2-2+2-2+2+2-2-2 = ?
A. 4
B. 2
C. -2
D. -4
E. -0
Instructor Note:
Using IF-AT Card pattern #E20

15. Scoring and Partial Credit
 5 Points – first choice
 3 Points – second try
 2 Points – third try
 1 Point – fourth try
 .5 Point – fifth try
Quick feedback for students and partial credit!

16.  PollEverywhere
 Take out your phone
 Create a new SMS
◦ In the message we
will text our answers
◦ Example
 To: 37607
 Message: 123456

18. What is the role of the teacher?
How do we form and support teams of students?
How can we support students’ learning in SCTL class?
How do we design assignments that engage teams?
With your partner visit:
tinyurl.com/TBLactivity

19. Unpacking TBL:
Think-Pair-Share Activity

20. Collaborative Learning Techniques
1. Roundtable (Kagan)
2. Numbered Heads Together
3. Send a Problem
4. Jigsaw
5. Fishbowl

21.  Cooperative Learning Technique:
◦ Roundtable (Kagan)
◦ Numbered Heads Together
◦ Send a Problem
◦ Jigsaw
◦ Fishbowl
 Description:
 Example:

22.  Could you see this helping students learn
about a topic in your discipline?
 How can you facilitate these?
 Do these address the different types of
students you have? (For example: Majors &
non-majors; first-year students & seniors,
etc).
 What hesitations do I have about these?
Collaborative Learning
Techniques Handbook, 2005

24.  TBL Classroom Tools:
◦ Setting up the learning environment – audio/video
◦ Mini-Lecture
◦ Formative Assessment
 IF-AT Scratch Forms
 Clicker Questions (PollEverywhere)
◦ Student-Centered Approaches
 Think/Pair/Share Activity
 Google Docs for Reporting
 Gallery Walk Activity & Reflection
 To investigate Collaborative Learning Techniques
 Minute Paper

25. More
information
available online
www.umass.edutefd