Intern Year: 10/7-10/11

Until I had the opporunity to rearrange seating in the classroom, I never realized just how difficult this process it. A teacher needs to consider students that have special needs, students who can't sit next to each other, and other special circumstances. I think I revised my original seating chart at least 2 times to accomadate all students. The first thing I tried to do was seperate students who have bavioral issues away from each other. I think seated students who have special needs or need asstances during instructional time. Lastly,I tried to put at least 1 tag kid at each table to act as some what of a leader. Also, I plan on changing the layout of the seating. In the beggining of the year the students were split into 3 groups of 8. Now, I plan on having 6 groups of 4. I hope because the groups are smaller, this will prevent talking.