What effect do
different classroom seating arrangements have on student participation?
Not exact matches
Five
seating plans that work for
different classrooms, lessons, children and times of year.
This
classroom was
different from anything I had ever experienced; for, it was not a room with rows of
seats facing a blackboard, rather it had been organised with a variety of activity settings (Tharp & Gallimore, 1997).
«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.
When the students at Harbord Public School walk into their
classrooms and take their
seats, those
seats could take many
different forms and positions in the room.