Palmer, P. (2017, December 12). Avoiding the Pitfalls of Student Group Work.

How do your students react when you tell them that they are going to work on a group project? Are their voices filled with glee or groans? According to education columnist Maureen Downey in her newspaper article, “What Teens Resent: Classrooms Controlled by Students Rather Than Teachers,” most students hate group projects “and wonder why schools revere them.”