Prague Journal

Thursday, May 26, 2005.

Eva had asked me to give a seminar on Team-based learning as part of a faculty workshop at VŠE this week. Her session on student presentation skills started at 8:30, and mine followed at 9:30. Most of the attendees were faculty from the International Business division, all of whom spoke very good English. The discussion about using, forming, and grading team projects was very lively, with every person engaged and obviously interested in finding ways to incorporate team projects in their classes. Most of these people teach lectures of 80 students, so they are trying to find ways to involve students in projects together instead of assign 80 individual reports or presentations. Forming teams at Czech universities is, of course, different than in my classes in the US. Here, all students are roughly the same age and, with very few exceptions, were born and grew up in the Czech Republic. The two main topics of interest were finding ways of to form diverse teams and how to evaluate team member performance.

The weather today is lovely: sunny and quite warm. For the first time I am wearing short sleeves! Rick and I both went to the grocery store. We are ready for a few simple home-cooked means and quiet evenings!

posted by JWinn @ 9:59 AM