group projects
(cross posted at Midcentury Modern Moms ) One day last week, I came home from work to find Becca hyper-tense and stressed out. Art supplies were scattered all over the kitchen table as she meticulously lettered the oak tag poster she was working on, as she cut and pasted sections of text and downloaded photos .... She was preparing the visual for a group project. Becca? My Becca? Prepairng the visual display for the group project? The child who did the "happy dance" in 8th grade because it meant she didn't have to take art class anymore? How did she wind up doing the artwork portion of the group project? It seems that the teacher for this class is very fond of group projects. And each time she assigns a project, she creates the groups, so that the students don't always pick the same three or four friends for their group. And this time around Becca was assigned to a group that...well, they were less than cooperative. She wound up ...