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Effective Learning Strategies Forum
Tuesday, August 9, 2005

Session 17
How to Use the Group Learning–Teamwork Teaching Strategy as a Way for Students to Practice and Improve Selected Elements of the Personal and Broad Business Perspective Competencies Included in the AICPA's Vision Project Course

Presenter:
Robert E. Holtfreter, Central Washington University

Description:
The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants' Vision Project includes a framework that "educators can utilize to develop or reform curricula to support the development of a set of (requisite) competencies … for all students preparing to enter the newly envisioned accounting profession." The broad competencies are categorized as functional, personal, and broad business perspectives, which are sub-divided into core competencies and elements. The framework also includes thirteen sample strategies to teach core competency elements. One of the teaching strategies is called the Group Learning-Teamwork strategy. The purpose of this session is to explain how to use this strategy as a way for students to practice and improve fifty-two elements included in selected Personal and Broad Business Perspective core competencies. The six core competencies from which the elements were addressed in this experiment included Professional Demeanor, Problem Solving and Decision Making, Interaction, Leadership, Communication and Strategic/Critical Thinking.

At the session information will be provided (1) as how students can be placed into small learning groups, (2) on how cases and a cooperative learning model can be used to address elements of the selected core competencies, and (3) from a survey of student perceptions regarding the effectiveness of this teaching strategy for learning the core competency elements.

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