Group Projects

By Micah Poe

We should not have any group projects! One of the many reasons that I know that we should not have group projects. Is that the people that just slack off can just sit back while all the other people are hard at work. This would not be fair to the ones that have been working because the grade would be for the whole group.The ones that slack would not be helped because they weren't doing work to help themselves and they need all the help that they can get.

Secondly I don't think that it would be very easy for teachers to divide the students

The teacher would have to make sure the amount of students were divided evenly

It would be hard for the teachers to tell everyone was doing their part, and know in which group each student belonged. The teacher might not know which students worked best together.

Some people learn differently. This can be good at times but it can make it hard to work as a group. If one person wants to show progress one way and another doesn't understand how to do the project the same way; that can make it confusing to a lot of the group people.

Third of all, it is hard to know what to do and what has been done. People don't always share their work with all the members of the group and that can cause confusion. One person might be working on something someone else has already done that can also lead to confusion.

Lastly, every group needs a leader. Sometimes leaders don't do their work and everything just gets chaotic. At other times there are too many leaders and there is no one left to lead. Sometimes there is no leader at all because no one wants to lead and the teacher doesn't assign it for anyone.