Create an Activity that Builds Community in Your Class_Accounting Class
I have chosen this activity as most of the activities in my introduction to accounting class are based on the group in class assignments. The class is being taught twice a week and students have to prepare and work on a project. However. I found out that if students form the groups themselves – they tend to stay with the group over the whole course. This brings up an issue of having less studious students tending to rely on their piers works. I have found out that by breaking up students using “silly” categories gives me an option to form the groups randomly and change them every week. For example, one-week students are broken into 4 groups depending on their BDs: winter, spring. summer, fall. Next week it by the number of siblings “only child, one sibling, 2, more than 2.
In order to have an academic motivation in groups’ formation- students are being told that by the end of the course, they will have to present their final project – a startup and explain in financial terms how the company is set up, operates and generates the revenue and WHO are investors. For the investor part – they have to name a person/ person whom they would take in their partnership -someone they have the most common features speaks the same language, like soccer, plays the piano. They can use a Venn diagram (see attached) to justify their choice. It teaches them both – to collaborated with different personalities during the course to and to pay attention to people they work with.
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