Student Contributor: B. Buchanan
Adjusting the seating chart is a last resort option if the students are being unresponsive to previous phases of trying to resolve the problem of distracting peers through continual talking.
Adjusting the seating chart is the last resort as a corrective phase. It should be used to help students succeed academically, not for the benefit of strictly the teacher. It is used when students are struggling to focus on tasks given by the teacher due to distractions from talking to their peers. An important element of this tool is not to call out students specifically, but make a seating chart to fit the needs of both the students and the teacher. I have been arranged to due talking to friends in class, and while at the time I thought it was awful, now I see it was to help me succeed.
Adjusting the seating arrangement in the classroom based on students distracting each other is a great corrective tool. It is not a preventative tool, it could be used as a supportive tool though. I say this because students are being helped and action is being taken, but overall it is more of a corrective phase. Rearranging student seating is a collaborative theory based on students listening to teacher and moving seats, but mainly teacher directed because overall it is the teachers choice and say in the matter.
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Tool Source: This is a tool that is used often throughout schools. I first got this idea through an elementary teacher, but I learned how to correctly use this tool during Gus's Classroom Managment class.
