The Classroom

3. Avoid chaos when rearranging the room to change classroom seating arrangements with the minimum of distruption

1. Different classroom layout to experiment with different arrangements of seats and table/desks

9. Design and purchasing decisions to get involved in key purchasing / design decisions about classroom and to help make bold, workable, creative decisions

2. Setting up the room for specific activities to create layouts of seating and desks that facilitate and encourage communication in some common activities

4. Effective seating arrangements to seat students in ways that are more useful / effective than sequential / random placements

6. Using a limited space to create space for moving around, making groups, and different classroom arrangement

8. Improving the classroom environment to make the teaching / learning space a more exciting environment to be in

5. Varying teacher positions to experiment with various teacher position in the class

7. Sharing classroom to create good classroom environment even though you have to move from room to room

techniques

1. Classroom layouts : semi-circle / U, tipped U, 0ne large table, zones, full circle all sizes of class ; rectangular, curved rows, arrowhead, diagonal, reverse, no tables, facing, islands, change focus

techniques :

specific activities : debates/discussions, social interaction and conversational activities, planning meetings, presentations and oral report backs, role plays and simulations set in office or other buildings, mingling

technique

  1. using the learners' ideas

techniques

  1. organising learners in whole-class work : mixed nationalities, language support, differentiated learning, friendships, learning-planned seating

technique

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getting involved :

2. seeing the room from a student's perspective

  1. organising random seating
  1. getting students quickly into the right place
  1. rearrangement options

Technique

putting yourself in the students' shoes, dealing with physical and environmental factors, improving the room

Techniques

different teacher positions, standing or sitting ?

techniques

minimum movement variations, use the front of class, make the most of other available spaces, moving the desks

techniques

1. plan for efficient reorganisation room

2. teacher agreements : allocated wall space, allocated storage space, separate corners, seat-arrangement rotas

  1. traditional desk and chair - or flaps ?
  1. foldable or stackable ?
  1. rectangular tables or shaped ?
  1. regular furniture mixed styles ?
  1. whiteboard on the end wall or the side wall ?
  1. Bright colours or muted shades ?
  1. wall space or noticeboards ?
  1. shelves or cupboards ?