Lazy group member - let him burn?

Niquii77
Sat, 07 Dec 2013 14:43:10 +0000

I can’t tell you how happy I was when my daughter was put in groups assigned by how well the students were already doing in the class. The good students had the opportunity to work with other good students who would pull their weight. The slackers had to work with other slackers and either take the consequences, or else actually do some work and learn something for a change.

I had one teacher who did group tests this way. Rather than mixing groups of students together for group tests, she arranged by grades and work ethics. It was a fabulous system. The “slackers” would always comment how it wasn’t fair that the “harder working” groups got higher grades. She would contest back saying, “If you want a higher grade work for it.”