Seating Patterns: Assignment Instructions

While at Ivor Dent I visited with Amber Casali, she is one of the full day kindergarten teachers. She shared with me some of the new challenges she is facing being in a new school. Amber is used to being the only kindergarten teacher in the school, she is used to having two washrooms for her students, and an entire room for storage and extra activity room. In this new school, the two kindergarten classes share one toilet, they have one small storage room and there is no

I believe that personally we should not have assigned seats due to the debate my team had that at the beginning of class kids are out of their seats talking to their friends but, that will happen no other, if teachers just have are own seating chart. When students walk into class, they don’t want to automatically get up and go to the same seat they sat in the day before.

Even though many bad things happen at lunch they don’t have to. If you are being bullied you should be surrounded by your friends for support. If you are given assigned seats and you're at table with bullies, you are forced to sit with people who harm you. Instead you should be able to be sitting with your friend and having a chance to move to a new place where you feel more comfortable. Assigned seats are not necessary in a school cafeteria.

I see students as the next generations’ heroes in so many fields. In my vision, I have to inspire students and prepare them with confidence, knowledge, experience and skills. Which means I encourage, communicate, guide, teach, and assess students in order to enrich their infrastructures.

It is important for my students to understand and value learning goals in the classroom. At the start of every chapter students will be supplied an outline of what they are going to encounter in the upcoming weeks.

be a few students who act out or disrupt the flow of learning. This is no different for Ms. Anderson. She

Pass out the student handouts (handouts will be stapled together in a packet—each student gets one packet with materials)

Today I’m going to talk about something that we all dread. Yes, you guessed it, assigned seats in lunch. We have all had them at one time or another and this time it’s Congress’s turn to take the hit. The main purpose of assigned seats in lunch is they are supposed to help the room stay quiet during the period. Although other people have found that the assigned seats in fact, make the room much louder. This problem is caused by when kids are set in seats away from the people the usually socialize with, then they yell across the room to talk to their friends making the room louder. Also the seats are supposed to help keep the room organized and less chaotic. Although the seats actually influence people to run across the room to try to make it

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Learning environment – I chose to arrange the room in a horse-shoe shape with participants seated behind desks. This enabled everyone to have a clear view of the screen for my power-point point and video presentations. The desks were needed as the icebreaker and activities required making written notes. I provided fish shaped biscuits and sweets to promote the FISH theme and ensured participants had pens, post-it notes and paper required for the activities and icebreaker.

Every student attending this event has shown they are a leader in and out of the classroom. When multiple leaders work as a group to accomplish something, disorder can ensue.

For when students are having trouble following directions Mrs. Blaum has a different approach for managing their behavior. All of the students have a card with their name on it and when they do something good or make an improvement she will tell them to go super improve themselves, which means they get to add a sticker to their card. Once they get to a certain amount of

Your Aunt Carole and Uncle Earl have been feuding since the 80s, your last single girlfriend is hypersensitive to being seated at the "wrong" table, and you have one couple coming from out of the country who only know you. Or perhaps your parents are divorced. How can you please everyone? Seating dilemmas have cost brides and grooms many sleepless nights before the big day. You want every guest to feel special, but if you have to rearrange that seating chart one more time, you 're going to lose it. What to do? With a little tact, diplomacy and common sense (along with those deep breathing exercises you learned in yoga), you can create a seating plan that will make almost everyone happy.

and remind the students of what they are required to do in your classroom. This can be

* Try to create a sense of community where the students feel more comfortable in front of each other. One suggestion made was to have the students sit in a circle.