While
good classroom arrangement is not a guarantee of good behavior, poor planning in this area can create conditions that lead to problems.
Not exact matches
Now might be a
good time to take a long look at your
classroom seating
arrangement.
The traditional
arrangement of a
classroom (teacher in the front, students in rows facing the same direction) works
well if class is conducted in the view that the teacher is the source of all knowledge.
Another factor, not only in a cluster - based
arrangement, another thing that needs to be thought about is a more differentiated communication out to sites and out to schools, cognisant of the fact that in some schools teaching principals have significant
classroom contact and yet have to address systems issues as
well, and surely there are ways to have a
better targeting approach to things.
We'll likely evolve a set of
arrangements that capitalizes on the short - termers as
well as the
classroom careerists.
Herein lies the heart of the problem: while mixed - ability
classrooms may be
good for student outcomes in the aggregate, they are certainly not the
best arrangement for the gifted.
Teachers and school staff had volunteered to lead implementation in their schools, and had chosen the
classroom arrangements and teaching methods that they believed worked
best for their students.
These one - page write - ups are referred to as «instructional walks,» in which «the principal notices what's going
well in the
classroom — environment, management, engagement, level of student independence, lesson content, grouping
arrangements, quality of student work,» writes Regie Routman.
While provoking the logical inference, Finn, in this blog post, stops short of openly pushing» a set of
arrangements that capitalize on the short - termers as
well as the
classroom careerists.»
Because so many high school
classrooms are shared, the
best a teacher can do to create their seating
arrangement is to rearrange desks each time they enter the next
classroom.