The questions I hear
about flexible seating most often are: What about classroom management?
Not exact matches
Grade: Fourth Grade School: Grace Hill Elementary, Rogers, Arkansas Students / Room Dimensions: 28 students; room is 816 square feet,
about 34 feet by 24 feet Setting It Up: My
flexible seating room was a DIY effort by my husband and me.
High school teachers were making
flexible seating work in rooms that averaged
about 750 square feet.
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.
What
about classroom management in a
flexible seating classroom?
Grade: Eighth - Grade English and Digital Media School: Kenilworth Junior High School, Petaluma, California Students / Room Dimensions: 32 students; room is 900 square feet,
about 30 feet by 30 feet Setting It Up: I kind of half - stumbled into
flexible seating — I still have 32 desks in my room!
But
about 25 percent of
flexible seating campaigns on PledgeCents are from Title 1 teachers.
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.
For more information
about flexible environments, check out Laura Bradley's post on
flexible seating in middle school, and see these resources that she and I put together:
Although I had brought in standard desk chairs to accommodate them, all of these parents opted to try out the
flexible seating options their students had been telling them
about all week — the floor pillows, Adirondack chairs, tire
seats, bucket stools, and so on.
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.
However, to be clear,
flexible seating is not
about buying all new, pretty furniture that's identical.
Overwhelmingly, they asked me to write
about standardized assessment pressures,
flexible seating and classroom design, and relationships.
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!
What
about changing the
seating arrangement in your current room, or embracing an attempt at
flexible seating?
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