Workshop Details
Friday, March 5, 2010
Title: Beginning With The End In Mind – Creating Effective TBL Exercises.
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Description of the issue/topic and rationale: One of the more serious barriers to the adoption of TBL by faculty is the difficulty associated with developing new TBL exercises. This workshop will first address the characteristics of highly effective TBL exercises and provide guidance on the most efficient way to create them. Unique features of this workshop are:
1. Emphasis on beginning with development of vignette questions.
2. Using NBME question templates for vignette questions.
3. Emphasis on tight coupling between topics in vignette questions with RATs and objectives.
4. Simplified writing of targeted objectives.
5. Minimizing outside reading.
Learning objectives: Participants will be able to:
1. Explain the concept of “tight coupling” in a TBL exercise and why it is important.
2. Identify readily available resources to compose application exercises and to use NBME question writing templates to compose proper vignette questions.
3. Create a checklist for construction of RATs and learning objectives that relate directly to the application exercise.
Session plan:
1. Introduction – Overview of:
· The three basic TBL phases and the importance of tight coupling between vignettes, RATs, and objectives.
· Higher order thinking skills vs recall.
· The relevance of learning style to team problem solving.
2. Training – Presentation of a sample TBL exercise to illustrate tight coupling between application, RAT, and objectives.
3. Implementation – TBL style vignette exercises to bring out skills in choosing vignette topics and in choosing appropriate lead-in templates . Inclusion of active audience dialogue using “turn to a neighbor” questions and follow-up discussion.
4. Assessment – Group dialogue and consensus.
Presenters:
John Pelley, PhD, Associate Professor of Cell Biology and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
Dean Parmelee, MD, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Boonshoft School of Medicine, Wright State University
