Home | How It Works | Stats Login | Register         Case: Team participation I teach an afterschool STEAM program which requires team participation. This class gives the students a lot of freedom, however, I have two students in one group that rarely participate. Most of the time the two students are meowing to each other and pretending to be cats. I can get them to participate when I assign them a task that interests them, but this is usually a task I would consider as busy work. I would really like them to get the most out of the group task that I present them with and not just do busy work. How can I get them to participate more and not be a distraction to others? Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) Try separating them and putting them into different groups. It might help with the distraction of being together.