Fires In the Bathroom Chapter 5

Chapter 5

Grouping is a very complicated situation. The chapter addresses many concerns and ideas about groupings and I will focus on two, letting student pick their own groups and the worry about one student doing all the work.

Grouping is tough. We have all been apart of a group where one student does all the work while the others take credit. This is when rubrics are important when they include opportunity to talk about the contributions of the entire group. In this section there was also a couple mentions about allowing groups to chose themselves. This seems generally like a bad life plan, seeing as those who group up tend to be similar minds, so slacker might group, and thus wouldn’t have a project. Also what happens to the kid no one wants to be with. That sorta ruins your day to be picked last for group projects. Its easier to assign them.