Hi Beatrice, Sorry to hear about the challenging group of students you have the quarter. I have had such groups before and they really force you to be creative in your approach and content so you can help them to develop problem solving skills. The last time I had such a group a student approached me and said "Would you please just have us memorize terms and dates because we have to work too hard when you give us case studies and ask us to solve problems? When you do that we have to think too hard?" Needless to say I didn't do that but I did work with them on seeing the value of the application and relevancy of what I was teaching them. Gary