ITUE 10th Anniversary Symposium

Peer-Led Team Learning Workshops:
Development and Implementation at the University of Rochester

workshop facilitated by Terry Platt
June 14, 2007
1:30-4:00pm
243 Wolf Hall

This session will explore the advantages of peer-led team learning (PLTL) through a variety of exercises and demonstrations. We will consider issues of implementation and maintenance of small group "workshops" and will emphasize analyses and discussion of factors that can contribute to the success of the PLTL approach.

PowerPoint presentation (ppt, pdf)
Handout: "Peer-Led Workshops: Leader Training and Cooperative Examinations" (pdf)
Reference: "An Innovative Selection and Training Program for Problem-Based Learning (PBL) Workshop Leaders in Biochemistry (pdf), Platt et al., Bioochemistry and Molecular Biology Education 32 (2), pp 132-136, 2003.

Terry Platt, Professor of Biology, and of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Rochester, tpla@mail.rochester.edu

Terry graduated from the University of Chicago with a B.S. in mathematics, followed by training at Columbia Teachers' College and two years in the Peace Corps teaching secondary school math and physics in Tanzania.  He did his graduate work on the lac repressor in the Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology at Harvard, followed by a Helen Hay Whitney postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford. After a decade on the faculty at Yale, he moved to Rochester in 1985. Over the past 8 years, Terry's interests have shifted to researching and implementing improvements in small group cooperative learning approaches, in both medical school and college level courses.  He is a leader of the informal Workshop Task Force at Rochester, and a strong proponent of the "Rochester Workshop Model" that emphasizes the involvement of highly trained peer leaders as an integral component of a successful and self-maintaining workshop program.
Homepage: http://www.rochester.edu/College/BIO/professors/platt.html

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