Reaction to Group Work
After the students completed the project, I asked them to write a reflection about working in groups and how they felt about this particular assignment. I wanted to know how the students reacted to the increased autonomy and if their opinion had changed regarding group work. Over the course of the project, we had implemented some of the suggestions from January, including oral or written reactions after each day to make each group member aware of what he/she had contributed to the project. Furthermore at the end of each period, I instructed each group to plan what they needed to do for the next day so that they could come into class ready to work. These responses are the students’ final reflections about the project in general. On the next few pages are several responses that I found particularly interesting.