Group Selection
In the first year, you will initially be assigned to work with all the other tutees of both your own tutor and another randomly selected tutor. For at least one of the two case studies, your individual tutor will also act as your case group tutor. After this, the groups will change on a random basis every two or three case studies. This ensures that any effect of group selection is evened out over the first two academic years.
PBL Group Roles
By
rotation at each meeting, students play four specific roles within the
group. These are chairman, scribe, minutes secretary and general members.
During a group meeting, the chairman has the task of directing the conversation.
It is useful to record information while working on a case study in order
to make this information available to the entire group. The scribe does
so by taking down important matters on a white board, flip chart or large
sheet of paper. The information addressed in a student group must be incorporated
in the minutes. This facilitates the recording of a case study. During
each group meeting, one of the students must therefore act as secretary.
A guideline for writing meeting minutes is given later.
Role of Chair
- To lead the group through the 7 steps
- To encourage participation of all group members
- To maintain good group dynamics
- To keep time
- To ensure the group sticks to the task at hand
- To check if the scribe records the points raised in the discussion
Role of Secretary
- To make minutes of the meeting by structuring the points written down by the scribe
- To distribute the minutes of the meeting to all group members and the tutor
- To participate in the group discussion
Role of Scribe
- To record points raised by the group
- To help the group order their thoughts
- To participate in the group discussion
Role of Group Member
- To follow the 7 steps
- To actively participate in the group discussion
- To listen to each others contribution
- To ask open questions
- To independently research all the learning objectives
- To share information with each other
Supervision
In PBL different roles for teaching staff can be distinguished: