{"id":205,"date":"2013-11-29T12:23:21","date_gmt":"2013-11-29T12:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/pbl-problems-students-running-off-at-the-mouth\/"},"modified":"2013-11-29T12:23:21","modified_gmt":"2013-11-29T12:23:21","slug":"pbl-problems-students-running-off-at-the-mouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/pbl-problems-students-running-off-at-the-mouth\/","title":{"rendered":"PBL Problems \u2013 students running off at the mouth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a giant, almost not ending PBL \u2013 building a robot \u2013 and a side effect is students running off at the mouth.  One student has been a particular problem and was toxic.  He slowed work down and made students uncomfortable.  Some was flat out racist, some sexist, and some a bit locker room in nature.\n<\/p>\n<p>I was trying to let the students work it out, but it just got worse and we are hitting a hard deadline.\n<\/p>\n<p>I finally pulled him, told him his conversation was toxic, and put him on a solo side project.  Had some blowback, he complained, an administrator talked to me and it got very comfortable but I stuck to it.  I also made it clear we could not be successful without his contribution.\n<\/p>\n<p>I did see the main project make good progress so positively reinforced that and on task conversations.\n<\/p>\n<p>The solo project wasn&#8217;t making satisfactory progress, so Wednesday, day before Thanksgiving break, I declared it help &#8220;Student X&#8221;, made him in charge of everyone including me and we knocked it out.  He was positively reinforced- he got caught up, he got to be in charge and felt included in the group again.\n<\/p>\n<p>Win, win all around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a giant, almost not ending PBL \u2013 building a robot \u2013 and a side effect is students running off at the mouth. One student has been a particular problem and was toxic. He slowed work down and made students uncomfortable. Some was flat out racist, some sexist, and some a bit locker room [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}