Hi Retta. Although this might not specifically qualify as something going wrong, I have experienced (on more than one occasion, I'm afraid - :-) ) a situation where a three-person student project group ends up being a group of one, because the other two students drop the course (or simply stop showing up). It makes for some creative adjustments. -- Mark

At 02:08 PM 11/16/2004 -0600, you wrote:
TIPS Colleagues -
Another faculty member and I have been invited by the director of our campus' teaching resources center to lead a roundtable discussion entitled, "Murphy's Law 101: When Things Go Wrong in the Classroom."
The idea is that we will prime the pump by offering a couple of examples of things going wrong, describe some ways of responding, and then invite participants to share their experiences. Where possible, we hope to facilitate discussion of ways to prevent problems as well as potential solutions. As examples, we're planning to discuss dealing with either the student or the instructor losing composure, responding to creative ways of cheating, and the situation of planning a class discussion but having no students willing to do any discussing.
We have a list of other examples of things going wrong, but it occurs to me that some of you might be able to offer even better examples, as well as great ideas for prevention and intervention.
Please share if you have experiences that qualify, and if you also can offer solutions, that would be great, too. I am guessing that this topic might be of interest to the whole list.


Thanks -
Retta

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