Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Use of Seating Plans

By : Jim S Dean

Seating plans can be brilliantly helpful things, or they can be more trouble than they are worth. They can help to sort out who should go where and also to remember names of new students, but it's not always easy getting students to stick to them.

When meeting a class for the first time, you can always let them sit where they want. In that first meeting you can judge straight away who should be kept well away from whom. Usually, the best way to begin a seating plan is to sit every student alphabetically, and boy/girl as far as possible. However, you can be responsible for some budding romances in classes through this method, which isn't always helpful.

An alphabetical boy/girl start can help you figure out who works well with each other, and who should probably be kept apart. With regards to less well-behaved students, you only really have two choices. You can either put them at the front so you can keep an eye on them but end up having to talk over them sometimes, or you put them at the back out of the way - but where you can't always see what they are up to. Personally, I prefer to put them at the front where a close eye can be kept on them when necessary, but you can also choose tactically to ignore them when they are being a real pain.

You don't have to stick to class lists for a whole year. I know teach­ers who have kept their class seating plans for long periods of time, only to lose any possible benefit from them as students get to know each other better. Sometimes it is more helpful to mix them around a bit and keep things a surprise.

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