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Seating Arrangement

This is a very important aspect for creating a productive classroom environment and most of the detail can be found in Types of Classroom Layouts.  However, a few important points to remember:
  • Seating layout can be based on a number of factors including space availability, student learning, behaviour management, teaching style, student personalities and particular year level.  However, in all classroom layouts it is important that children can read the board, are free to access equipment and the teacher, and that the teacher can attend to all students.
  • By changing seating arrangements student's brains will be subconsciously challenged by forcing them to see the room, their peers and their learning from different perspectives.  If students don't extend and challenge their brains, during lessons their brains will start to shut down and cease working to their maximum potential (Tracy, 2000).
  •  Novelty (and breaking from routine) stimulates the brain and changing students seating arrangements every 2-3 weeks can add to this.  Change can also encourage all children to work and cooperate with every other child.
It is often debated by educators, that students shouldn't be moved because they need stability, it's easier to learn names and it saves regularly making seating plans (Webb, 2000).  Are these worthwhile reasons for not creating a stimulating and hopefully productive learning environment? 
 
 
 
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