deeply unhappy the whole term... 99% of the time thinking you're going to completely bomb... negative evaluation of his behaviour... attitude sucked.
Looking
beneath the stress and frustration to see what triggered it to such a level of intensity that there does not seem to be sufficient resiliency to recover, learn, and move on.
Did the majority of students have this experience, or was he in the minority?
Were most of the students deeply unhappy?
Did most of the students spend 99% of the time on the group project thinking they were going to completely bomb?
If this was not a problem of this magnitude for the majority of students, what factors do you believe caused them to experience this term differently than your son?
Do you see his experience as a problem of poor "fit" educationally?
Do you see his experience as stemming from something internal? (The content of his self-talk, possibly a tendency to dwell on the negative, etc?)
Do you see his experience as a
combination of poor academic "fit" with his learning environment
and also something internal?
The answer to your question of
what to do going forward may depend largely upon the answers to the above sets of questions.
If he changes learning environments he brings his self-talk and beliefs with him.
Does the school have a school psychologist you could speak with about your concerns for your son?
