Ycasiano week6 seating

Ycasiano week6 seating

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  CLASSROOM SEATING ARRANGEMENT Yessenia Casiano SOE115 Psychology of Teaching and Learning Kendall College
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  OVER VIEW OFTHE STRATEGY Classroom seating arrangements are used every year in classrooms all over the world. There are many different ways to arrange the seats to promote a positive learning experience for listening skills. I want to learn more about this strategy because when I become a teacher I want to make sure I have my seating arrangement where everyone is able to have a positive learning experience.
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  CREDIBLE SOURCE #1 Accordingto Wannarka (2008), she states that the most popular seating arrangements are rows, groups and semi-circles. Wannarka does a research study on a class and finds out that row seating had the best impact on the students. The students had less behavior issues and wanted to participate much more when they felt that the teachers focus was on them. She also states that every student and class is different and this just worked for them.
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  CREDIBLE SOURCE #2 Seatingarrangement should be based on the child’s own personal learning preference. “There is no such thing as one right way to seat students, just as there is no single way to teach all students” (Cunninggim (2014). When students have their seating based off of them it gives them a upper hand on learning. Also, since student are constantly learning the teacher might move their seat so someone else can have the same impact the other child was getting. It allows everyone to have a fair education by adjusting the seats to the students needs.
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  CREDIBLE SOURCE #3 Accordingto Mrs. Sanders (2016), group seating has been the most proactive in her years being in kindergarten classrooms. She explains how the children learn off of each other. Mrs. Sanders also puts children with different learning styles in one group so they can better understand others. It promotes her not so good listeners to pay attention more because just because their in a group seating arrangement they still have to take on individual learning tasks in the classroom.
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  ANALYSIS OF INFORMATION Thecredible sources #2 and #3 were the same. They all want to make sure that the seating arrangement catered to the students needs. The seating arrangement also impacted their learning and listening skills when they were seating in a spot that felt like it was met for them. The credible source #1 was a research study that was done and row seating worked out better because they were focus on the teacher more. Also, they had less behavioral issues with row seating.
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  CONNECTIONS Student seating arrangementsare base on their Microsystem needs from Bronfenbrenner (Woolfolk,2016). The student’s needs are met when they have a positive interaction with their Mesosystem such as teachers and peer groups. Students develop learning skills being around other students in a group. The way the teacher figures this out is by finding out the student’s intelligences from the Howard Gardner’s theory (Woolfork,2016 ). The teachers group the student with different students so that they can learn with them and also experience different intelligence.
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  CONCLUSION I have learnedthat they’re many seating arrangement to choose from. Student seating arrangement does effect the student’s learning. It is up to the teachers to assess each student and make sure that their seating arrangement will increase the students learning and not decrease it. Also making sure that the student can clearly see and hear the teacher will promote positive learning experience.
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  COMMUNICATION WITH FAMILIES If Ihad a parent come up to me to explain the meaning of seating arrangement I would say: “ Hello, I understand your concerns and I am here to help. I want you to know that the way your child will be seated in the classroom will be based off their intelligence. This will give us an outlook on how the your child learns and intake information. By placing them in the correct seating arrangement it gives your child an greater chance at exceeding his intelligence and maybe even learning different intelligence skills.”
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  REFERENCES Cunninggim, P. (2015,April 28). Does the Seating Arrangement Matter. Retrieved August 17, 2016, from http://nisce.org/default/seating-arrangement-matter/ Sanders, A. ( 2016 August 16). Personal Interview WANNARKA, R. (2008). CLASSROOM SEATING AND ACHIEVEMENT Seating arrangements that promote positive academic and behavioural outcomes: A review of empirical research. Retrieved August 17, 2016, from http://www.corelearn.com/files/Archer/Seating_Arrangements.pdf Woolfolk, A. (2016) Educational Psychology. Learning, Teaching, & Educational Psychology. (p. 6-8) 13th Edition. Pearson Education.8