Faculty Resources for Team-Based Learning

• Managers Who Lead (most of the tools come from this toolkit)
• D.Kantor. (2012) Reading the Room: Group Dynamics for Coaches and Leaders. Jossey-Bass
• Represented here as best practices for designing group projects, this site from the Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence and Educational Innovation at Carnegie Mellon University suggests ways create interdependence, promote teamwork skills and build in individual accountability
• Learn TBL: The centerpiece for this site is the book, Getting Started with Team-Based Learning by Jim Sibley. He is the Director of the Centre for Instructional Support at the Faculty of Applied Science at University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, Canada. This extensive resource discusses how to use teams properly, ensure student readiness, promote problem solving, and make student accountable. It includes a variety of resources including videos.
• The Team-Based Learning Collaborative suggests ways to get started with teams, form teams and orient students and do peer evaluation among other things. A very extensive resource...
• Why TBL Works(pdf)is a handout that overviews rationale for team-based learning and many of its guiding principles.
• The Research-Based Flipped Classroom: Team-Based Learning is a site from Iowa State University's Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching that provides videos and examples on how to effectively employ team-based learning.
• TBL - Articles of Interest is a page from the Team-Based Learning Collaborative web site that provides an exhaustive list of online resources related to Team-Based Learning.
• R. Stein and S. Hurd (2000) Using Student Teams in the Classroom, Anker Publishing, Bolton, MA
• Video: Teaching Group Effectiveness is an 11-minute video on teaching groups to work effectively. The web site, FreePD, provides resources that can be useful to professors or instructors teaching in the post-secondary sector.

Sample rubrics and related documents for individual and team evaluation (SPH faculty)

• Improved group work by applying "team-building" tools and approaches (pdf), Taryn Vian, Department of Global health)
• Assessment Tool Examples (pdf), Taryn Vian, Department of Global Health)
• Rubric for Assessment of Team Effectiveness (pdf), Kathleen Macvarish and Harold Cox, Office of Public Health Practice)
• Rubric for Assessment of Individual Team Members (pdf), Kathleen Macvarish and Harold Cox, Office of Public Health Practice
• Scoring Rubric for Final Group Presentations (pdf), Richard Laing, Department of Global Health
• Group Project Evaluation Form (pdf), Wayne LaMorte, Department of Epidemiology