Sentences with phrase «flexible classroom seating»

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The next year my district made a commitment to flexible seating by equipping every classroom with seating options and chairs on wheels.

Flexible seating has made an amazing difference in my classroom — it creates a student - centered environment and promotes responsibility.

A view of Murray's full classroom, which represents a first - year transition from traditional to flexible seating.

Flexible seating can add a wrinkle to classroom management, but with careful planning and clear expectations, our students will rise to the occasion and use flexible seating to improve their own learning enviFlexible seating can add a wrinkle to classroom management, but with careful planning and clear expectations, our students will rise to the occasion and use flexible seating to improve their own learning enviflexible seating to improve their own learning environment.

The benefit of the iPad is that it can be one size fits each, with boundless opportunities for differentiated, customized and personalized learning that gets kids out of their seats and classrooms, and into open, flexible and modular spaces.

I was already experimenting with flexible seating in my eighth - grade English classroom when I saw a video about combating writer's block by working in a box castle.

«I am in my 13th year of teaching, but this is my first year to incorporate flexible seating into my classroom,» said first - grade teacher Ashley Rice Broomfield, before expressing a common sentiment: «I will never go back to traditional seating.»

What about classroom management in a flexible seating classroom?

Flexible seating is transforming classrooms, enabling new modes of learning, and deepening student — and teacher — engagement.

Her work with classroom redesign and flexible seating has become the standard worldwide.

Once flexible learning environments caught on, our district gave every classroom more seating options, including chairs and tables on wheels.

The questions I hear about flexible seating most often are: What about classroom management?

I began moving my first - and second - grade classroom to flexible seating with an old folding bench for kneeling and a sofa table for standing.

For ideas about classroom management in a flexible seating environment, see John Thomas's post on working with first and second graders and my post on middle school students.

Redesigning a classroom or implementing unassigned flexible seating is a shift in both structure and teaching philosophy — an entire mindset shift.

«The teachers and students regularly change how the classroom and common areas are set up, which is great, because the flexible nature of the furniture, being able to move it around to different types of seating to suit the lesson, is really good for a nice change,» Fuller says.

In addition to having bins and drawers along the walls, kindergarten teacher Benita Kay Moyers stores supplies in portable bins and uses crate seating as storage, all popular flexible classroom options.

Students are taking more responsibility for their own learning as they see me model risk - taking in the classroom, and the flexible seating environment has played a large role in that shift.

To get you started, we've reviewed dozens of flexible classroom blogs, interviewed over 20 teachers with experience in flexible seating, and talked to education design consultants about the core building blocks of flexible classrooms.

Overwhelmingly, they asked me to write about standardized assessment pressures, flexible seating and classroom design, and relationships.

Cori Smith Excel Academy Charter School 4/5 Grade Teacher «Mrs. Smith is constantly researching new ways to teach students and has converted her classroom with flexible seating to accommodate all of her students learning styles.

Find out more about how to successfully implement Flexible Seating where you are by heading to the project page, and let's create classrooms all over the world that children can't wait to get into!

In preparing struggling students to take the Algebra I, gateway end of course assessment, teachers have introduced flexible seating and flipped classroom models to create an environment which fosters learning.

After spending the summer getting ready for my flexible seating classroom, I met my new teaching partner for the first time.

Annie suggests making adjustments to your way of thinking, «I like to run a tight ship in my classroom, but flexible seating has caused me to release some of that control.

When used correctly, I believe flexible seating can have a huge impact on any classroom - I know it sure has on mine!»

A good level of classroom management is required for a productive flexible classroom environment and developing this is an important part of the flexible seating process.

Those wishing to create flexible seating in their classrooms may meet with some skepticism from others though this may pass once they see the positive effects of such a classroom design.

Flexible seating seems to have a positive impact on learning in the classroom, particularly with engagement and motivation.

She has helped over 30 school districts to develop their own flexible seating classrooms and people from all over the world have contacted her for her suggestions.

For example, Jill's classroom has flexible seating, including three desks, tables, a couch, «wiggle seats» (exercise balls) and few big armchairs to keep students physically active throughout their learning.

Classroom structures may need to be adjusted to accommodate individualized learning — in other words, instead of the traditional rows of desks facing the blackboard, classroom seating arrangements may need to be more flexible, so that the teacher can work with individuals or small groups while the majority of students work independently with a personalized learning software program.

Novotel Cairns Oasis Resort offers conference organisers a choice of flexible meeting rooms that can seat up to 150 people in a Theatre style setting or 100 people in a traditional classroom setting.