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Lesson 2: The Benefits of Flexible Seating in your Classroom

From KNILT

Objectives

  • The participant will list the benefits of flexible seating
  • The participant will evaluate the benefits of flexible seating
  • The participant will reflect on whether or not they think flexible seating will help students in their own classroom?

Pre Assessment

Have you ever seen flexible seating around your classroom and known it was there for something more than just a fun place to sit?..
think of a time you have seen different seating selection in a classroom...
  • What was happening in the classroom?
  • What were the students doing?
  • What was the teacher doing?
  • Did the students appear to be more engaged in the lesson or less engaged in the lesson?

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Benefits of Flexible Seating

1. Students often feel empower when they have some control over their environment. Students have control to where they sit and often times the option to more their location throughout the day keeping kids excited for activities. Students centered learning creates a very supportive classroom setting.

2. Children are constantly moving and need to be moving. Flexible seating lets them more, wobble, bounce, rock, stand or whatever their hearts desire to get their energy out. Moving keeps minds more alert and focused allowing for students to stay engaged better.
3. Flexible seating gets kids to be more comfortable not only in their seats but in your classroom as well.
4. Collaboration with partners and small groups becomes much easier since they are always moving around.
5. Opens up a line of classroom management and communication with your students allowing them to use flexible seating in a fair and non-disruptive manner.

6. Flexible seating stimulates students sense of touch helping students focus and process information. Especially helpful for students with ADHD and ADD.

Here is a quick video showing a school who uses flexible seating throughout their school!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTWHYRGoYhc

Think & Reflect

  • Now that you have seen flexible seating and heard a little bit from teachers do you think that the pros of flexible seating can out weigh the odds?

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Navigation

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Extended Resources

Top 10 Benefits of a Flexible-Seating Classroom. (2019, November 13). Retrieved December 07, 2020, from https://smithsystem.com/smithfiles/2019/05/21/top-10-benefits-flexible-seating-classroom/

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