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As a result, the teacher often had multiple lessons and activities happening at once. One of the challenges she faced was appropriate seating arrangements that allowed students to learn comfortably while enabling multiple lesson formats. Some of the types of searing options she tried including:
- Stadium seating. The teacher arranged desks in angled rows, hoping to alter the perspective for each lesson and keep the children focused. This didn’t work out as she felt that some of her students were simply too far away during each lesson.
- Modified horseshoe. Next, the teacher arranged the desks in a horseshoe shape. While this saved space and allowed the teacher a wide teaching space in the middle of the students, she found that the opposite-facing desks created distractions.
- Group seating. The solution came with group or team seating, with groups of desks joined together to form multiple islands throughout the classroom. This worked the best, and the teacher decided to take it a step further.
