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The Classroom - Coggle Diagram
The Classroom
1. Different Classroom Layouts
Aim
To experiment with different arrangements of seats and tables/desks
Techniques
Classroom Layouts
Smaller classes (up to about 20 learners
Full circle
One large table
Semi-circle or U
Tipped U
Zones
All size of class
Rectangular
Curved rows
Arrowhead
Diagonal
Reverse
No tables
Facing
Islands
Change focus
Seeing the room from a students's perspective
2. Setting up the room for specific activities
Aim
To create layouts of seating and desks that facilitate and encourage communication in some common activities
Techniques: Layouts for specific activities
Debates or discussion
Social interaction and conversational activities
Planning
Meetings, presentations and oral reports back
Role plays and simulations set in offices, houses and other buildings
Mingling
3. Avoiding chaos when rearranging the room
Aim
To change classroom seating arrangements with the minimum of disruption
Technique
Using the learners' ideas
Rearrangement options
4. Effective seating arrangements
Aim
To seat students in ways that are more useful or effective than sequential or random placements
Techniques
Organising learners in whole-class work
Mixed nationalities / language groups
Language support
Differentiated learning
Friendships
Learned-planner seating
Organising random seating
Getting students quickly into the right places
5. Varying teacher positions
Aim
To experiment with various teacher positions in class
Techniques
Different teacher positions
Standing or sitting
6. Using a limited space
Aim
To create space for moving around, makking groups and different classroom arrangements
Techniques
Minimum movement variations
Use the front of class
Make the most of other available spaces
Moving the desks
The drastic option: getting rid of the desks
7. Sharing classrooms
Aim
To create good classroom environments even though you have to move from room to room
Techniques
Plan for efficient reorganisation of the room
Teacher agreements for shared rooms
possible agreements
Allocated wall space
Allocated storage space
Separate corners
Seat-arrangement rotas
8. Improving the classroom environment
Aim
To make the teachig/learning space a more exiting environment to be in
Techniques
Putting yourself in the students' shoes
Dealing with physical and environmental factors
Light
Acoustics
Noise
Ventilation
Temperature
Improving the room
Decorations
Learners' work
Zones
9. Design and purchasing desicion
Aim
To get involved in key purchasing or design decisions about classroom - and to help make bold, workable, creative decisions
Technique
Getting involved