[Bobwhite Blather] The way Scouts learn

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Mon Apr 18 05:00:37 PDT 2016


There's a new item at Bobwhite Blather: 'The way Scouts learn'

Our older son, a second-year medical student, came over and joined us for lunch
this weekend. He filled us in on some of what the school is planning for next
year's incoming class. For the past year, he has been the volunteer leader of a
co-curricular study program called Case-Based Learning, in which second-year
students mentor first-years in situational learning. They work in small groups,
posing hypothetical situations appropriate to what they've been covering in
lecture, with the first-year students mulling over the problem and coming up
with a solution collaboratively. After being impressed with its success, the
dean of the medical school met with my son to talk about how this independent
study concept could be incorporated into the actual curriculum. He told us that,
starting next year, many of the large lecture classes (which can include a
couple hundred students) are going to be replaced with smaller study groups,
where students will take turns learning specific skills or elements and then
teach them to the rest of the students in their small group. The concept is that
by teaching a new skill themselves, students will learn it better than if
they've just heard someone lecturing them about it and retaining it just long
enough to repeat it back on an exam.

My first reaction was to observe that it sounds pretty much like the patrol
method at work.

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