Flexible Seating Lesson 1

Objective

After reading, students will answer questions about flexible seating.

What is flexible seating?

A flexible seating classroom is a classroom that replaces traditional seating like desks and chairs and uses various types of seating. Students are able to sit and complete their assignments in areas around the classroom. However, there are different levels of flexible seating. Typically, a flexible seating classroom replaces all standard desks and chairs with a variety of other seating options (options in PDF below). However,some teachers may keep the standard desk and chairs but just implement additional options of seating. There are numerous flexible seating options that you can use in your classroom. Depending on your students’ age, some options might be more appropriate than others.

Look at the following PDF to view different flexible seating options.

File:Flexible Seating Options.pdf

When teachers implement flexible seating in their classrooms to replace desks, students then have to keep their belongings in a alternate location. For example, notebooks. Teachers may use large bins to store all student notebooks in. This way all notebooks are in one place and won't be misplaced. Some teachers will have to add new supplies to their classrooms in order to implement flexible seating successfully. For example, if students are sitting on a floor seat, students will need clipboards in order to complete their assignments.

Activity - Learning Journal

Would you implement flexible seating in your classroom? Explain why or why not.