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Teaching English as a Foreign Language
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Types of Seating Arrangement
To accommodate and facilitate different types of learners in your class, you need to enrich your classroom activities with different pattern of activities (see, for example, Budden, 2008; Ramsden, 1999; and Sasson, 2007a & b). The varied activities might necessitate the different seating arrangement. The following types of seating arrangement might give you ideas of how to create more lively atmosphere in your classroom. 1. Traditional rows This is a traditional classroom seating arrangement of several rows of desks facing the teacher. I would bet that most of us sat in traditional rows during our school years. The students’ desks are not touching each other but are lines up in rows and columns. The teacher is usually only able to walk from the front to the back in this set up, not walk from side to side without making students move. The students are in a perfect test taking arrangement if the teacher is monitoring the class. It is easy for the teacher to monitor When arranging classroom layout, ask yourself the following questions: • Can I see the faces of every single student and can they see me? • Can everyone see the board (if you're planning on using it)? • Can the students see one another? • Can I move around the room so that I can monitor effectively? • Can the layout facilitate the students’ activities? • Is there any student with special needs that I have to facilitate? Adopted from: http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/articles/classroom-layout digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id 46 all the students. This situation is probably more adult-run and direct instructions. The students are all facing the teacher and can see the blackboard, overhead projector, screen and/or other instructional aids. This lay out places students as the audience focusing their attention to teacher. Therefore, this seating arrangement tends to create teacher-centric lesson (Lewis, 2009). The problem with this arrangement is some students are going to have to sit in the corners and in the back of the room (Lewis, 2009). In these locations in the classroom students participate and interact less and more behavioral problems occur. This arrangement is also not good for group work or projects. Taking the time to have the students get into groups and move their desks is taking away important instructional time during the school day. If students are sitting in twos you have immediate pairs made for pair work but as you will probably want to change the pairs at some point this is only a limited advantage. If you can't get around behind the students to look at their work it can be really difficult to monitor. If you have to work in this layout think about the spaces at the front of the class and the aisles between the rows. For mingle tasks make use of these. Look for alternative spaces for certain group tasks, such as the corridors, playground or halls. Download 1.05 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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