Desk arrangements

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Back to School Tips including seating arrangements, teacher must haves, and what I wish I knew from the begining of my teaching career.

I figured out a way for my mom to go from student to student in her classroom by the way I arranged the desks!

Education looks very different today then it did 100, 50 and even 10 years ago. The days of quiet classrooms, full of students in tidy rows, sitting at attention while the teacher lectured at the blackboard have been replaced with more collaborative styles involving a multitude of teaching methods. If you walk into a classroom today, you’ll likely see desks and tables in all sorts of arrangements. Children might be gathered into small groups, sitting at various stations around the classroom…

When it came to desk arrangements in my room, I was constantly at two different ends of the spectrum. I either loved an arrangement and used it all year, or I kept trying to switch it up and was never satisfied. So many factors go into a seemingly simple part of your classroom. That years group of kids (including their personalities, behaviors, and mannerisms), the amount of new material you need to store, how many kids you have, what other furniture is inside your room and more.

This week in classroom management, we worked in groups to form a classroom layout design. While there are many components to a classroom’s layout, the main focus of our group’s attention fell on th…

When it came to desk arrangements in my room, I was constantly at two different ends of the spectrum. I either loved an arrangement and used it all year, or I kept trying to switch it up and was never satisfied. So many factors go into a seemingly simple part of your classroom. That years group of kids (including their personalities, behaviors, and mannerisms), the amount of new material you need to store, how many kids you have, what other furniture is inside your room and more.

My room is not huge, ginormous, or gigantic. However, those are some of the adjectives people have used to describe my room after seeing pi...

Knowing the best classroom desk arrangement for your students takes a bit of time. You learn quickly whether the current seating will need to be changed.