Team-Based Learning Collaborative (TBLC): Little Steps, Big Journey (COSM faculty only)

Led by Chris Roberts, Associate Director, CTL, Lisa Kenyon, Associate Professor, Biological Sciences, and Todd Pavlack, Manager Distance Learning and Instructional Designer, CTL.  Team-Based Learning Collaborative (TBLC) is a teaching strategy that is guided by the mechanics of active Learning, inquiry, and backward design, while going beyond all three to enrich the learning environment in a very strategic way. Students are permitted the flexibility of group contribution, but are held accountable to one another through that very process. Problems are tackled communally, claims, evidence and reasoning are shared openly and the argumentation that results requires individual thinking and peer persuasion at the most intellectual of levels. It is problem solving at its finest.  The Boonshoft School of Medicine has been implementing this TBLC approach more historically than other colleges on campus. Helping our COSM students learn in this way will benefit them and will set their course to better thinking in whichever career path they chose. Faculty’s teaching arc will also improve toward a trajectory of pedagogical substantiveness. In this session, we will present an introduction to TBLC, explain how TBLC is being using in biology in traditional and scale-up classrooms, and share a new CTL online application for using TBLC in your classroom.