You Are Not “hopelessly Behind” Everyone Else. Every Person Moves At Their Own Pace And Your Life

I understand why professors say teamwork is important when justifying group projects, even though I know it’s really about grading less papers. I’m a reasonable person, I get it.

But if you’re an instructor on this app I raise you this: if the project is about teamwork, why isn’t my grade?

I’m being graded on the end result of the project, not the teamwork. Yet no amount of teamwork is going to make that end result strong if there are people in my group who simply don’t care. And no, that isn’t how it works in the real world.

When I worked on group projects professionally, there were things in place to set the team up for success and monitor our work:

- there was usually pre-designated project lead who had leadership skills or a strong background knowledge on the project

- our slack channels usually had a supervisor in them for questions and accountability

- in my non slack work places we had project check ins with a supervisor

-in some cases we had project feedback surveys at the end or halfway through

I’m 33, I have professional and leadership experience, I could do this project by myself in a week and get an A because I’ve done similar work professionally. I also have ocd so “taking over” is something I’ve worked hard to reduce and I’ve learned to balance with “step up step back”.

By not doing all the work for a group of 20 something’s who barely experienced high school, I actually am practicing teamwork and leadership. I’m giving them info and prompts to try to help, but some of them simply don’t care and are hoping someone else will do all the work. Ultimately they can get away with that because my professor is grading us on the quality of our work, not how we got there.

My attempts to get people to meet, the prompts I gave my team to help get conversations going, and the info I provided to them that they didn’t use will not be graded. My professor will never see our discord chat. Instead I’m being graded on the work ethic of others. How is this teaching teamwork? How is this grading team work? How is it actually preparing severely undersocialized students (my classmates missed most of high school due to Covid and it shows) for the workplace?

So if you’re a teacher, professor or instructor who genuinely cares about teaching teamwork and not just grading fewer papers, here are some suggestions:

-designate a project leader: let the team choose and give that person extra credit

-do project check ins, it can just be a quick survey monkey to give people a chance to “tattle” anonymously. You have to actually read them and follow up on issues though.

-mandate that the group chat stays in canvas or that you’re included in the discord chat, that chat itself should be part of the grade based on how much people participated in and lead conversations

-give individual grades. This means not just grading based on the end result but on each persons portion of it. If one person made the whole presentation that’s going to factor more into their grade. If one section of a project is better researched than another that should factor into individual grades.

-TEACH TEAMWORK FIRST: college isn’t about learning by trial and error, we’re typically given material to learn before being graded on an assignment that proves our knowledge of it. So many current students were not taught teamwork or other social skills typically gained in high school because of COVID learning, don’t assume they know how to do things you take for granted. If the project is team based because you feel teamwork is important, the least you can do is give some handouts on communication and planning strategies that are used in real workplaces. It’s unfair to be grading students on something you didn’t teach them / that isn’t a prerequisite for your course. If your course doesn’t have teamwork knowledge as a prerequisite why are you assuming your students know anything about it?

This Valentine’s Day, say it with a JSTOR card. Perfect for your favorite study partner. ❤️

i hate it when i cant even write a poem about something because its too obvious. like in the airbnb i was at i guess it used to be a kids room cause you could see the imprint of one little glow in the dark star that had been missed and painted over in landlord white. like that's a poem already what's the point

So firstly, I would like to say

FUCK U UK SUPREME COURT

YOU PIECES OF ABSITE FUCKING SHIT

WTF ARE YOU DOING

For those of you who don’t know what im talking about,

So basically 

you might not have heard of the UK Supreme Court decision stating that trans women are not women under the Equality act, which effectively sets the UK 50 years back in terms of queer progression. They stated that a woman is based on their biological sex, which rules out transgenderism in general.

This is a dire effect not just on trans women, but British women and queers. If you are a British citizen, please sign this petition to appeal this ruling and fight for equality, and if not, please share with others. Thank you.

Petitions - UK Government and Parliament

Petition: Allow transgender people to self-identify their legal gender.

We believe the government should change legislation to make it easier for trans people of all ages to change their legal gender without an o

And for those of you who arent British citizens,

You can still share this post

Please

Tag everyone you know

Reblog 50000 times

I don’t care

Just please

Get this to as many people as possible

Tags under the cut, of just pretty much everyonr I know , and if you weren’t tagged, you can still reblog it

@winter-depressed-belle @nonbinary-potatoes @narniasclosetvoltron @faeriesandfables @spaghettihell @grahams-gerudo @the-purpurhaj @thesillytransgirlnova @acelovesremuslupin @autisticrodent @densomtror @irithind

may i get more sans chronic pain headcanon lore pls

Absolutely!!!

Sans has chronic pain because his SOUL is weaker than normal and has to work harder to keep him up and about, due to the way he was created (Read here for context on that). Since monsters are made of magic, and their SOULs create that magic to keep them physical and healthy, a SOUL that creates less or weaker magic leads to a monster with less physical strength, or in severe cases like Sans, general chronic pain.

If/when he overexerts himself (which is easy for him to do, since his tolerance threshold for exercise and just general exertion is lower than most monsters) the pain gets worse, as the SOULs sort of self-regulation tactic to get him to stop doing that so it can recuperate. Essentially, when he does anything that's too strenuous, his SOUL downs him so that it can rebuild its magic stores again. He can push through that pain if he needs to, but if he does it'll be twice as bad afterwards, and he'll take twice as long to recover.

Ironically, teleporting takes less magical exertion for him than walking long distances does, which is why he likes to use his shortcuts to get most places. (Teleporting is easy for him because he's very practiced in it, and doesn't take a lot of magical energy unless he's going really far, versus walking, which takes the energy of moving all his limbs and joints and his equivalent of breathing and heart rate etc etc; essentially, walking is a lot more moving parts compared to just 'taking a shortcut')

He also gets migraines because he has really awful vision in his right eye; He can only see light and movement in that eye, which puts strain on his brain (does he have a brain?? Whatever the skeleton magical equivalent is) that leads to migraines. Could probably be mitigated if he wore an eyepatch or sunglasses or something but he's got an issue with trying to present like he's 'normal' because he doesn't want people to perceive his weaknesses and possibly take advantage of them (he has a general distrust for most people).

Similarly, he would probably benefit from a wheelchair or similar mobility aids, but since Papyrus just carries him around most of the time why bother. (plus, then, it's seen as more of a cute sibling dynamic rather than dealing with pitying glances from strangers)

Papyrus also has pain & vision issues, also because of the way he was created, but not as bad as Sans, and he deals with it differently. But that's a topic for a different post! (here's Papyrus Vision too though, since I made it anyway)

I hope you enjoyed this little ramble! I had fun writing it! Feel free to send in more questions if you have any :)

i dont see why i cant start a trend, so here goes. lets try to build back our attention spans. lets try to focus on just one thing for as long as possible. lets not watch those "asmr for people with adhd" videos where they fuck up adhd folks even worse. lets resist the urge to reach for our phones when watching a movie. lets read the articles we reblog, even when theyre boring. i know its hard, i have adhd too, but its worth it. i also know that this hard work doesnt always seem super impressive to other people, so id love for yall to tell me in the tags or replies if youve done something, no matter how small, for your attention span. you deserve to feel like youve taken back some of what social media has ripped from you

i like water