Building on and Integrating Previous Knowledge
- by Ann Burgess
A General Description
The class meets as a large group three times per week in a standard lecture hall and as smaller discussion sections once per week. To encourage everyone to study the assigned papers and necessary background materials ahead of time, we give a quiz each week in discussion sections. The first large group meeting each week consists of a lecture that introduces the topic and provides background material. The second is taken up by the core of the course, a team worksheet on that week's paper(s). The final meeting consists of a short teamwork evaluation period (teams discuss what went well that week and how they can improve next week) and a class discussion in which teams with different responses discuss their differences and the faculty leader addresses any misunderstandings brought out by the worksheet responses.
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