Byron Korus Wins Best Poster Award

Byron Korus, Ed.D., CEC., CCE., AAC at Hamline University won the best poster award based on blind peer review at the first FELC Summit for his poster entitled "Team-Based Learning Principles: Improving Learning Using a Collaborative Inter-Active Learning Strategy

Byron started teaching culinary art at the Art Institutes International Minnesota in 1998 where teaching became a new passion. Korus attended St Mary’s University receiving a M.A. and continued on for his doctorate, from Hamline University in St. Paul Minnesota. Byron’s dissertation focus is how team-based learning enhances knowledge building in a culinary environment. On his way to earning his Ed.D. he has a great deal of industry experience such as being an executive chef for many large hotels, restaurant and entertainment complexes; serving as the food and beverage director for "Mississippi Live", and; working as a sales manager for Kraft Food Service. Chef Korus is a certified culinary educator and a certified executive chef, and was inducted into the Academy of Chefs in 2001.

The abstract of his poster was: Team-based learning (TBL) is pedagogy for teachers who are ready to use an active team strategy in their classrooms. After discussing this poster, participants will recognize what TBL is, and why learning teams advance knowledge building beyond simple learning. Participants will identify the key principles of TBL, and the structure of class activities. The poster will present the changing roles of instructors and students and its effect on knowledge building.

Congratulations, Byron, from all of us at FELC!