[Teachldsseminary] seating issues....

[BRIAN LOKHORST]

I divide the kids into zones and prayerfully select who should be the leader and who should be in the zone that month.  Then I do it again the next month with an eye to mixing it up.  The kids love knowing where they should sit and the shy ones aren't filled with anxiety about who is sitting with who and where they should sit.  I've never had a complaint in 3 years but many nods of approval. It mixes up the stronger ones so they are not sitting all together for competitions. And some times they are with their best friends and sometimes they are not and it's no big deal.
I know they are high school students, but my experience with teaching in the public school system is that the classes that have seating plans were more orderly and productive.  "My house is a house of order:)"  
I know that as an unpopular teen, I was always less stressed out when I knew where I was to sit. Not knowing who was going to be around me or who I should choose to sit by gave me a stomach ache. 
I claim the privilege of having a seating plan for my class and allow all other teachers the same privilege.  Let them seat them how, where or what they may.
Nancy Lokhorst
EMS Ft. McMurray, Alberta

----- Original Message -----
From: leslie remali <ilamerl at yahoo.com>
Date: Thursday, August 10, 2006 9:57 am
Subject: [Teachldsseminary] seating  issues....

> I know this may come across as rude or hard hearted,
> but....  when it ocmes to seating....these ARE high
> school aged students.  Let them sit wheee they
> want...Then, and here is where you may think I am
> rude...If there are some students who have a problem
> sitting together, be adult about it, have them stay
> after class, and discuss it with them!!!!!  Give them
> an opportunity to adjust their behavior.  This way you
> are earning their respect.  If there is a clique
> forming, put them in groups for an activity and just
> break it up for the day.  My experience has been such
> that this approach works.  I believe in treating them
> as young adults.  Students will only rise to the
> expectations we place upon them.  They will also
> behave the way we treat them.  If you haven't tried
> this approach, I strongly reccomend it.....
> 
> 
> Seminarily,
> Leslie in Indy
> 
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