In PBL/TBL Smarter Classroom, team-based learning is conducted in small groups, and combined with technological aids. Teacher-centered teaching is transformed into student-centered teaching through communication, cooperation, discussion, and sharing. The traditional classroom is flipped.
What is TBL?
TBL is the abbreviation of Team-based Learning, which means letting students learn in teamwork and group cooperation. In class, students are divided into groups in random, homogeneous, or heterogeneous ways, and group members sit together to facilitate group discussion, learn and solve problems by self-study, thinking, discussion, and presenting.
TBL's teaching model has been studied for decades. However, in the past, it was difficult for many teachers to implement this effective educational concept in traditional classrooms, and the process was challenging. But with the help of technology, it will be easier for teachers to join the ranks of TBL teaching.
The TBL Smarter Classroom environment provided by HABOOK combines the concepts of TEAM Model smarter education support system and smarter classroom, and proposes the "TEAM Model Team-based Learning Model" to provide a TBL application environment and key application mechanism based on smarter classrooms to achieve a deep integration of education, teaching, and information technology.
In TBL Smarter Classroom, team-based learning is conducted in small groups, and combined with technological aids. Teacher-centered teaching is transformed into student-centered teaching through communication, cooperation, discussion, and sharing. The traditional classroom is flipped.
What is TBL?
TBL is the abbreviation of Team-based Learning, which means letting students learn in teamwork and group cooperation. In class, students are divided into groups in random, homogeneous, or heterogeneous ways, and group members sit together to facilitate group discussion, learn and solve problems by self-study, thinking, discussion, and presenting.
TBL's teaching model has been studied for decades. However, in the past, it was difficult for many teachers to implement this effective educational concept in traditional classrooms, and the process was challenging. But with the help of technology, it will be easier for teachers to join the ranks of TBL teaching.
The TBL Smarter Classroom environment provided by HABOOK combines the concepts of TEAM Model smarter education support system and smarter classroom, and proposes the "TEAM Model Team-based Learning Model" to provide a TBL application environment and key application mechanism based on smarter classrooms to achieve a deep integration of education, teaching, and information technology.
Read this academic article to learn more: "The model of TEAM Model Team-based Learning: Vision and Practice" How TBL Smarter Classroom Works?The TBL Smarter Classroom is mainly composed of HiTeach 5 on the teacher's computer and HiGroup on the student's group touch device. The classroom needs to be equipped with an environment that can be connected to the Internet externally, usually with a wireless AP that is sufficient to give all mobile devices external connectivity so that teachers and students can connect and interact with each other. A whiteboard touch device (interactive whiteboard or LCD TV touchscreen) is recommended to show HiTeach 5's powerful whiteboard tools. In addition, if each student in the classroom is also equipped with an IRS clicker or mobile device, please refer to the IRS Smarter Classroom and Mobile Smarter Classroom.
Classroom Setting
Teacher:Install HiTeach 5 (pro. authorization) on the computer and HiTA 5 TEAM Model Teacher App on the teacher's smartphone to integrate HiTeach wirelessly for teaching and teacher-student interaction. Students (Groups): Student groups use HiGroup on various touch devices (e.g., tablets, laptops, large touch LCD screens) for feedback interaction. Student (Individual): For each student, according to budget, you can choose IRS clickers or Web IRS 5 (used on various mobile devices like tablets, smartphones, or PCs) • After class, students use AClass ONE Learning Companion for after-class review, pre-class preview, and remedial learning. Wireless network environment:Set an environment that can be connected to the Internet externally, usually with a wireless AP that is sufficient to give all mobile devices external connectivity so that teachers and students can connect and interact with each other. Classroom: It is recommended to install a touch device (such as Haboard interactive whiteboard) for teachers to operate intuitively, and use HiTeach 5's powerful IWB tools to operate/write/mark with their hands.
✨Environment example 1: Student-Tablet + Touch Screens for group collaboration
Whole Class Collaboration, Groups Collaboration, Differentiated Collaboration The first PBL/TBL smart classroom environment is a classroom where students use tablet computers to facilitate each student to participate in collaborative discussions more conveniently. Collaboration learning strategies have many benefits. They can enhance learning motivation, improve classroom participation, and more importantly, improve learning effectiveness. Implementing digital collaborative learning strategies requires good tools. Due to the pandemic, Jamboard has become a familiar collaboration software. When implementing online teaching, teachers only need to ask everyone to open Jamboard separately, and then they can share a drawing board and do joint drawings, brainstorming, and collaborative puzzles. , conduct online activities for whole-class collaboration on a common whiteboard.
Different from Jamboard's versatility, HiTeach 5's collaboration function is specially designed for differentiated group collaboration on students' tablets, helping teachers implement multiple collaborative teaching strategies more conveniently and efficiently, such as: whole-class collaboration, group collaboration, or differentiated collaboration. When implementing differentiated group collaboration tasks, appropriate delivery strategies can be quickly adopted based on the needs of learning tasks, such as teacher assignment, random assignment, and student self-select tasks.
After the teacher pushes the collaboration task, the group members use their own tablets to participate in the collaboration and jointly complete the collaboration task pushed by the teacher. When each group is working on the collaboration task or has completed the task, the teacher can guide and participate in the collaboration at any time, or the whole class can join together observe the collaborative results of each group. After the student side completes the collaboration results of the collaboration task, the collaboration module will automatically output the collaboration statistics table and calculate the participation operation index of each learner.
The classroom environment is mainly composed of HiTeach 5 on the teacher's computer, personal tablet computers on the student's side, and touch screens for group collaboration. The classroom needs to be equipped with an environment that can connect to the Internet, and be equipped with a wireless AP that can connect to the Internet, so that teachers and student groups can interact online.
HiTeach TBL/PBL collaborative classroom environment example 1
Teacher side-configure a touch device (such as a large touch LCD screen, Haboard interactive electronic whiteboard) and install HiTeach 5. Install the HiTA 5 Teacher App on your mobile phone to wirelessly control HiTeach for classroom teaching and teacher-student interaction. Student side (group)-Student groups can use various large-scale touch-controlled IWB devices (such as large touch LCD screens, projection-type interactive whiteboards) to open HiGroup for group collaborative discussions. In addition to collaborating using their own tablets, group members can also participate in discussions on large group screens. Student side (individual)-Students use various mobile devices (such as tablets, laptops, or mobile phones) to open Web IRS in a browser for feedback, interaction, and collaboration.
With a complete smart classroom environment, modern teaching methods and strategies such as interactive learning, task learning, multiple assessments, peer assessment, team-based learning, group collaboration, and differentiated learning can be implemented in the classroom. Taking the application of collaboration as an example, the main applications include whole-class collaboration - co-editing by the whole class, groups collaboration - co-editing within the group, and differentiated collaboration - customizing collaboration tasks for different students/groups.
⭐Whole Class Collaboration
In the whole-class collaboration mode, the teacher and all students will see the same collaboration screen. The whole class (including the teacher) can edit together. After the collaboration is over, the marking or operation process can be replayed.
⭐Groups Collaboration
Group collaboration means assigning each group to perform its own collaboration tasks. Teachers can also view the collaboration status of each group in real time on HiTeach, zoom in on a group, and even participate in the group's collaborative operations.
HiTeach TBL/PBL collaborative classroom group collaboration example
⭐Differentiated Collaboration
Group differentiated collaboration is the biggest difference between HiTeach and other collaboration platforms. Teachers can assign different collaboration tasks to each group. It is even possible to directly initiate differentiated collaboration tasks for groups of students who choose a certain option or answer results based on the chart after the IRS statistical survey.
HiTeach TBL/PBL collaborative classroom differentiated group collaboration example
⭐Complete interaction, tasks, and assessment functions
In addition to excellent collaboration functions, teachers can enjoy more interactive learning, task learning, multi-assessment, peer assessment and other teaching functions by using tablets owned by every student, designed in the teacher's own classroom.
✨Environment example 2: IRS keypads for every student + group touch screens or tablets
Whole-class feedback, group collaboration, or differentiated group collaboration The second PBL/TBL smart classroom environment is a classroom where students use IRS keypads to make it easier for each student to participate in feedback, and use group tablets to assist collaborative discussions. In this classroom environment, it mainly consists of HiTeach 5 on the teacher's computer and HiGroup of the touch devices for groups, IRS keypads for each student on the student side. In terms of environmental coordination, the classroom needs to be equipped with an environment that can connect to the Internet, and be equipped with a wireless AP that can connect to the Internet. Teachers and student groups can interact online.
HiTeach TBL/PBL smarter classroom group collaboration example 2
Teacher side-configure a touch device (such as a large touch LCD screen, Haboard interactive electronic whiteboard) and install HiTeach 5. Install the HiTA 5 Teacher App on your mobile phone to wirelessly control HiTeach for classroom teaching and teacher-student interaction. Student side (group)-Student groups can use various mobile devices (such as tablet computers, laptops) to open HiGroup for group feedback, photo uploading of task results, and other operations. Student side (individual)-Students use the IRS keypads to conduct interactive activities initiated by teachers.
⭐Group Synchronous Tasks: Promote cooperation, sharing, and expression
HiTeach's synchronized audio, video, and data transmission technologies support the data interaction required for group synchronous interaction to enhance the quality and effectiveness of TBL team-based learning.
⦁ Pushing and collection of works Group synchronization tasks combine the task functions of HiTeach 5 on the teacher side and HiGroup on the student side. After the teacher has prepared the teaching materials (presentations or multimedia content), he can start the synchronization task (work collection function) at any time. The teaching material page on the teacher side will be automatically synchronized to the group device on the student side. Group members can discuss the tasks, sort out and summarize the results and submit them to HiTeach on the teacher side. During the process of each group completing and submitting tasks, the teacher's work collection window can fully grasp the completion progress of each group, and select works according to the time sequence for observation, comparison, mutual evaluation, praise, annotation, explanation or sharing and other activities. ⦁ Task History Browsing Teachers can turn on or off the submission switch for each task according to the task's need in HiTeach. For tasks that are not yet closed, students can use the task history browsing function to view their task/work history. They can also submit other work to update their work. ⦁ Multiple Task Types When the teacher starts a synchronous task, he/she can choose the type of work to be submitted, including drawing/pictures, real-time audio recording, text, or multimedia files (PPT, Excel, video...), fully supporting learning and practice activities in synchronous lessons.
⭐More interactive and quiz functions
By using the IRS keypads that each student has, teachers can enjoy more interactive learning, multiple assessments, peer assessment and other teaching functions designed in their own classrooms.
Interactive function of HiTeach with IRS keypads
Real classroom scenes of students using IRS clickers and tablets for group teamwork
✨Environment example 3: Group touch screens or tablets
Group collaboration or differentiated group collaboration The third type of PBL/TBL smart classroom environment is a classroom that simply uses group tablets to assist collaborative discussions. In this classroom environment, it is mainly composed of HiTeach 5 on the teacher's computer and HiGroup on the student's group touch device. In terms of environmental coordination, the classroom needs to be equipped with an environment that can connect to the Internet, and be equipped with a wireless AP that can connect to the Internet, so that teachers and student groups can interact online.
HiTeach TBL/PBL collaborative classroom environment example 3
Teacher side-configure a touch device (such as a large touch LCD screen, Haboard interactive electronic whiteboard) and install HiTeach 5. Install the HiTA 5 Teacher App on your mobile phone to wirelessly control HiTeach for classroom teaching and teacher-student interaction. Student side (group)-Student groups can use various mobile devices (such as tablet computers, laptops) to open HiGroup for group feedback, photo uploading of task results, and other operations.
⭐Group Synchronous Tasks: Promote cooperation, sharing, and expression
HiTeach's synchronized image, text and data transmission technology supports the data interaction types required for synchronous interaction with each group's mobile devices to improve the quality and efficiency of TBL team-based cooperative learning.
⦁ Pushing and collection of works Group synchronization tasks combine the task functions of HiTeach 5 on the teacher side and HiGroup on the student side. After the teacher has prepared the teaching materials (presentations or multimedia content), he can start the synchronization task (work collection function) at any time. The teaching material page on the teacher side will be automatically synchronized to the group device on the student side. Group members can discuss the tasks, sort out and summarize the results and submit them to HiTeach on the teacher side. During the process of each group completing and submitting tasks, the teacher's work collection window can fully grasp the completion progress of each group, and select works according to the time sequence for observation, comparison, mutual evaluation, praise, annotation, explanation or sharing and other activities. ⦁ Task History Browsing Teachers can turn on or off the submission switch for each task according to the task's need in HiTeach. For tasks that are not yet closed, students can use the task history browsing function to view their task/work history. They can also submit other work to update their work. ⦁ Multiple Task Types When the teacher starts a synchronous task, he/she can choose the type of work to be submitted, including drawing/pictures, real-time audio recording, text, or multimedia files (PPT, Excel, video...), fully supporting learning and practice activities in synchronous lessons.
The setting that best fits TBL's design
It's so easy to learn in groups!
In TBL Smarter Classroom, teachers can send materials to the group tablet, and students can send back aggregated information to teachers after group discussions. With the aid of technology, teachers guide the group to discuss and summarize the results, spending less time lecturing, and letting students have more time for self-learning, thinking, and discussing. More pre-class activities can be arranged to guide students to establish prior knowledge and achieve the effect of flipping the classroom.
IRS+Tablet Varied interaction methods
The IRS Interactive Response System allows each student to express their opinions in real time with the clicker on the hand. The HiTeach TBL system can display information including the whole class's statistical charts and group's statistical charts based on the data clicked by the students. Teachers can carry out differentiated push functions based on this, push different contents to each group, and achieve differentiated teaching and accomplishment-oriented teaching of diverse ideas. In this environment, teachers can not only focus on the group, but also the individual students. According to the data to promote expression and sharing of diverse ideas, teachers and students can fully enjoy this lively learning atmosphere.
Cultivate the key qualities of future talents
Future talents must not only be able to think independently, but also be able to cooperate with others. In the TBL Smarter Classroom, cooperation of group members is a normal task in the classroom. Students can promote the development of high-level thinking skills in the process of interaction with peers and teachers and the stimulation of thinking. Students will be better able to further develop communication, creativity, thinking, cooperation, problem-solving, and other key qualities needed by future talents.
Classroom as society Cultivating social skills
The TBL model has the characteristics of a social learning context, which makes the current large classroom teaching style effective. The social context means that people discuss and interact with each other, leading students to "learn through doing" and promoting the development of teamwork and socialization skills. In addition, individual feedback from students is collected through IRS / Web IRS, teachers can automatically select students to share and express with HiTeach, so that students have a fair environment to voice themselves and all need to concentrate on learning and discussion, eliminating onlookers. Teachers can also grasp the differences in students' perceptions of problems and adopt different teaching strategies.
The overall benefits of TBL/PBL Smarter Classroom
The TBL model has been developed for over 30 years since it was introduced in the 1980s. It is based on students' self-learning, with cooperative discussion and problem solving as the core of the classroom, allowing students to think and solve problems on their own so that they can gain the initiative in learning.
The main effects on students are as follows:
Stimulate the enthusiasm for active learning: TBL model can stimulate students' passion for problem-solving and active learning. Students' participation in problem-solving situations in class strengthens their motivation and desire to learn. Experiments and studies have proven this improves student learning outcomes.
Promote high-level thinking like analysis, evaluation, and creativity: Students will be able to promote their skills in analysis, evaluation, and creativity in the process of interacting with peers and teachers, brainstorming, and further develop the key qualities needed for future talents, such as communication, creativity, thinking, cooperation, and problem-solving.
Cultivate the quality and skills of teamwork: Cooperative discussions allow students of different levels to learn and benefit in a social context. The social context is the interaction, communication, cooperation, discussion, and sharing between people, and the TBL model has the characteristics, which can make the current large classroom teaching style in schools effective.
Promote students' motivation to actively participate: Provide immediate graphical feedback to enable students to respond to problems and further strengthen students' motivation to actively participate in discussions.
Encourage students to focus and devote themselves to the learning content: Students must respond to the teacher's questions, prompt students to think about the problem, and interact through option/text/image/audio/file and other mechanisms.
Assist students with deeper conceptual understanding: Students must further explain the reason behind their answer, so this can encourage students to explore their inner thinking.
Student performance and diagnosis: After the test, students can immediately view their results, and with interactive reviews, learning is more focused and absorption is higher.
For teachers, it helps mainly in the following ways:
Able to meet the needs of both test-oriented and multi-oriented education: Teachers may be hesitant to make changes because of the pressure of exam results. The TBL model has been shown to improve students' multiple competencies and performance in assessments at the same time.
Easier to shift from teacher-centered to student-centered: In class, teachers spend less time lecturing, and students spend more time on self-study, thinking, and discussion. This provides an opportunity for teachers to shift from teacher-centered teaching to student-centered teaching.
Students of all levels can benefit: peer learning and teaching among students can benefit students of all levels.
Class activities that can be integrated with flipped classrooms: The TBL model is also very suitable for class activities in a flipped classroom because both have elements of student self-learning, classroom discussion, and student-centeredness.
Assist teachers in diagnosing learning status and provide decision-making references: The system can collect students' answers and assist teachers in finding students' learning problems from the answers immediately. It fully assists teachers in assessing the situation, effectively clarifies misconceptions, and inspires follow-up discussions.
Improve the interaction between teachers and students: Assist teachers in effectively mastering the fairness in interaction, so that all students have equal opportunities for learning and expression.
Improve the fluency of teaching: The system encourages students to focus on the key points of learning, saving teaching time, and making classroom context interesting without losing control.
Convenient for teachers to use: The system is simple to operate, so that teachers can focus on teaching, and teaching thoughts are not easily interfered by technological tools.
Increase the diversity of teaching and focus on every child: Teachers can design questions to allow students to feedback and interact through option/text/image/audio/file and other mechanisms to increase the diversity and richness of teaching. Every student must respond, achieving paying attention to each child.
Reference application scenario
The Vision and Practice of TBL TMSC Through this video, you will be able to follow the instructions and demonstrations of Dr. Liang, a TBL learning expert, to understand the important key links in the TBL smarter classroom teaching method. ►Open video link
TBL smarter classroom function teaching demonstration
This video introduces several important team-based learning functions in the TBL smarter classroom. You can use these key functions to absorbs HiTeach TBL from the film, including data interaction with the group tablet computer, and data statistics of the IRS interactive response system application. ►Open video link
A TBL lesson in Bulgarian Kindergarten
In this video, a math lesson with the theme "Easter Holiday" was taught by Ms. Nataliya Parvanova in Kindergarten 67 in Bulgaria. She used fun activities to let students learn about grouping, counting, and categorizing with colors via individual practice and team collaboration. ►Open video link
TBL Model Lesson: Elementary School Math
A TBL activity in a TEAM Model Smarter Classroom by Ms. Lin of Shuangyuan Elementary School, Taipei. ►Open video link
Successful Case
Da You Junior High School
Since 2017, the whole school has introduced the “TEAM Model TBL” smarter classroom. The principal put forward the “Climbing Plan” for systematic smarter classroom training, and used the TEAM Model cloud service to promote teachers' resource sharing and joint lesson preparation. Based on the TBL teamwork learning model and combined with games and task-based learning, Da You Junior High School has developed unique smarter classrooms, which has successfully aroused students' interest in learning and significantly improved the overall academic performance of the school. Among them, the innovative teaching design of comprehensive subjects, such as geography, biology, and scouting, has attracted the media to cover it for many times. In 2017, it was selected as “Representative School for Smarter Education of the Year” by Taiwan Technology Leadership and Instructional Technology Development Association. ►More introduction of Da You School
Where can I refer to actual teaching cases?
Sokrates platform has many lessons ex.
HiTeach can play a lot of supporting roles in the classroom. With student feedback devices and group devices for group cooperative learning, it can be combined into a diversified smart classroom solution. As for how to apply it to your own teaching? It may be the most effective way to see the best and to refer to the application methods of other teachers. The Sokrates platform gathers teaching examples that are enthusiastically open and shared by teachers from all over the world, including videos, application feature marks, and even teaching plans, covering various subjects and different academic systems. You can filter the movie lesson examples that suit you for your reference, and then integrate it into your own innovative teaching, and you can definitely increase your digital application skills in the shortest period of time!
Purchase & Set Up InformationProcurement Scenario Description:
Example 1:
To set up a class with 30 students, each student's device (Tablets/smartphones/PCs) has Web IRS access that can interact with HiTeach, and 6 group touchscreens, you need to purchase 1 set HiTeach 5 with 30 Web IRS connection authorization, 6 HiGroup connection authorization, and Collaboration module.
*After purchasing, the following items can be used for more applications for free: HiTA Teacher app, IES Smarter Teaching Service (Personal), and AClass ONE Learning Companion (For IES Personal courses).
Example 2:
To set up a class with 30 students and 1. The students are divided into 5 groups and each group's device (touchscreen, tablet, etc.) has HiGroup access that can interact with HiTeach and 2. Each student has an IRS response device (model RF-09A) that can interact with HiTeach You need to purchase 1 set of HiTeach 5 professional version authorization, 5 HiGroup connection authorization, and a set of 30 IRS keypads/clickers (including connection authorization with HiTeach)
**Based on the authorized student and group connection number, HiTeach serial number license or account license will be provided (please refer to: The difference between HiTeach 5 serial number license and account license, and how to check the content of license?)
*After purchasing, the following items can be used for more applications for free: HiTA Teacher app, IES Smarter Teaching Service (Personal), and AClass ONE Learning Companion (For IES Personal courses).
Example 3:
To set up a class that is divided into 5 groups and each group's device (touchscreen, tablet, etc.) has HiGroup access that can interact with HiTeach, you need to purchase 1 set of HiTeach 5 professional version authorization and 5 HiGroup connection authorization.
*After purchasing, the following items can be used for more applications for free: HiTA Teacher app, IES Smarter Teaching Service (Personal), and AClass ONE Learning Companion (For IES Personal courses).
Overall Environment of HiTeach TBL/PBL Smarter Classroom
• Students' group tablets or other touch devices: HiGroup Purchased according to the number of groups
For Students (Individual)
• For each student, according to budget, you can choose IRS clickers : RF-09A (The standard purchase quantity is 20/30/40/50/60)
• AClass ONE Learning Companion (For students to use before and after class) • Do online learning, homework, assessments, surveys, and polls.
Wireless network environment
The classroom needs to be equipped with an environment that can be connected to the Internet, usually with a wireless AP that is sufficient for all students to use mobile devices to connect to the Internet.
Touch Device
It is recommended to install a touch device (such as Haboard IWB (101 inches)) for teachers to operate intuitively, and use HiTeach 5's powerful IWB tools to operate/write/mark with their hands.
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RF-09A (The standard purchase quantity is 20/30/40/50/60) 
(For students to use before and after class)