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Teaching in teams: lessons from systematic review
training
NCRM Training the Trainers Event4th June 2007
Angela Harden and Karen Bird
MRS Node
EPPI Centre, Social Science Research Unit
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Outline
• Background and context
• Our approach to team teaching
• Critical reflections and lessons learned
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Systematic reviews
• Summaries that use rigorous and explicit methods to bring together and integrate findings from multiple studies.
• Key part of the evidence-informed policy and practice movement.
• Methods for reviews are still emerging
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Support for review groups since 2000:Education (25 groups, 70+ reviews),
criminology, speech and language, social care
Conducting reviews since 1993 e.g. in health promotion, education, social care,
employment
On-line libraries of research evidence
Short courses and Masters level courses
in research synthesis since 2003MSc in Evidence for Public Policy
launched in Oct 2006
Evidence for Policy and Practice Information and Co-ordinating (EPPI) Centre
Formal links with Cochrane and Campbell Collaborations
Methodological work, e.g. Methods for Research Synthesis Project
ESRC National Centre for Research Methods
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Examples of course learning objectives
After successful completion of the MSc students should:
• have a critical understanding of different methods of accessing and synthesizing research evidence relevant to the full range of research, policy and practice questions
• be able to design, plan, conduct and evaluate systematic reviews of research for social policy, and evaluate methods for the communication, interpretation and application of review findings
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Teaching in teams*
• Traditional teaching models “pedagogical solitude”
• Contrasts with collaborative character of much research
• Teaching may benefit from collaboration – aid to critique, reflection and development and testing of new ideas
• Collaborative practice can foster development of “scholarly teaching practice”
• Teamwork: co-operation v collaboration
*Based on Benjamin (2000) The scholarship of teaching in teams. Higher Education Research and Development 19: 191-204.
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Our team teaching model: the team
• 15 tutors (including 3 module leaders)• Multi-disciplinary• Teaching experience ranging from 2-20
years• Teaching experience of different sectors,
levels and age groups• Varying levels of specialist research
methods knowledge
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Team teaching: Our approach
• Team development of curriculum and course content
• Team delivery of teaching (face to face)
• Team development of teaching skills
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Team teaching: Our approach
• Input from team members to develop a course with wide appeal across disciplines and abilities
• Fosters creativity • Responds to new developments in
research• Continual revision and development
Development of curriculum and content
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Team teaching: Our approach
• 2 tutors in each session to provide different experiences and perspectives
• Higher student- teacher ratio• Share the workload • Alternate teaching and observing• Provide practical support, e.g. computer
problems.• Support and development opportunities for new
tutors
Delivery
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Team teaching: Our approach
• Peer observation- support and feedback
• Debriefing sessions
• Specific training sessions to develop skills, e.g. VLE; assessment at M Level
• Share experiences
Training for teaching
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Reflections on our approach
1. How to train a mixed group
2. Students bring their own topics and materials to training sessions
3. Mechanisms for sharing good practice in research methods training.
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1. Teaching and learning within a ‘mixed’ group
• Open and explicit dialogue around learning objectives
– ….but impossible to meet all learning objectives
• Match between tutors and learners: tutors, as well as students are a ‘mixed’ group
– ….but dangers re: lack of continuity with tutors and materials
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2. Building on student’s own experiences
• ‘Mixed’ students can learn from each other– ….but if too diverse there may be little common ground– ….but more vocal students may dominate
• Tutors learn from students to further develop teaching and learning methods and materials and own subject knowledge– …..but more vocal students may have more influence on tutors
• Extending teaching team to students = teaching and learning teams??– ….but need to strike a balance between student-led and tutor-led
learning
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3. Sharing good practice
• Teaching in teams is a mechanism for sharing good practice
• Writing about our experiences
• Teaching in teams as a scholarly activity
– ….but lack of time and resources
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Conclusion
• Our team approach to systematic review training has advantages and disadvantages
• Importance of balance between collaboration and cooperation
• Recognise the role of scholarship in teaching practice
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Questions for discussion
• What are your experiences of teaching in teams?
• How to maximise collaboration in teaching teams?
• How to be a scholarly teaching team?
• What’s so special about teaching research methods?