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Flexible Seating
Classroom Management | K-12
The physical space of our classrooms is one of the components of our teaching practice over which we have some control. How we use our space can either help or hinder classroom management, either facilitate or limit collaboration in group work, and impact how we are able to differentiate instruction. For these reasons, more teachers are turning to a flexible seating design to best meet the needs of their students.
In this course, you will learn the research and theories behind how flexible seating supports student-centered learning. You’ll develop strategies for planning out different seating arrangements and best practices for ensuring they run smoothly and successfully. In addition, you’ll take a close look at your current classroom setup and evaluate the best flexible seating arrangements for your needs.
Using the tools and techniques from this course, you will be able to implement flexible seating in your classroom to support classroom management and enhance students’ achievement.
Connections to Practice
This course provides the following classroom connections:
- Strategies for implementing flexible seating
- Classroom management strategies that are appropriate for and beneficial to a flexible seating classroom
- Approaches to classroom expectations and rules to select the best arrangement that supports student engagement and ownership in a flexible seating classroom model
Course Objectives
In this course, participants will:
- Create your own personal and professional goals you hope to achieve by implementing flexible seating in your classroom.
- Evaluate the current seating and classroom environment for learning in your classroom, and determine how flexible seating can support classroom management and enhance students’ achievement through a student-centered classroom.
- Redesign your classroom into a brain-friendly, enriched environment.
- Evaluate the best flexible seating arrangement for your classroom environment.
- Plan for evaluation of your progress toward meeting your goal(s) for the course.
- Create a flexible seating artifact that supports implementation, preparation, and planning for appropriate classroom content instruction in the nontraditional setting.
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- Train your staff in as little as eight hours or delve deeper into complex topics in our longer courses.
- Replace in-person PD days with 100% online, self-paced training teachers can complete virtually.
- Get PD tailored to your school's unique needs with our customizable content and flexible solutions.
- Offer higher education rigor and quality designed to give your teachers targeted, relevant training they can apply immediately.
- Increase buy-in and morale by providing teacher choice while maintaining school/district oversight and strategic alignment.
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We intentionally plan and build our course offerings to solve real problems in education. We regularly update our existing catalog and develop new courses based on schools’ needs, trends in K–12 education, and continual feedback from educators. Depending on your needs, you can train your staff in as little as eight hours with our short courses, or delve into complex topics in our longer ones.
Our course writers are content experts with extensive subject matter credentials and classroom experience. They work closely with our development team to build an experience that is relevant, highly practical, and aligned with industry standards. Courses are not just filled with innovative techniques, but also illustrate how to apply these tools in practice. With each course, teachers develop tangible products such as lesson plans or assessments that they can use immediately in their classrooms.
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