Vocab
Define Barriers to Mobility
Factors that affect the ability to enter and exit an area
___________ is the biggest obstacle to working the crowd in a typical classroom.
The furniture
Keeping custodians up to date is a suggestion to resolve what?
People Issues
What are 2 examples of people issues?
Custodians aren't informed and teachers have to help each other
Define Interior Loop
Shortest distance you can walk that allows you to read the work of every student
The ultimate goal for the best room arrangement is to allow the teacher to get from ______ to ______ in the fewest steps possible.
Student to student
You may need to do what to your room in order to get it they way you want?
Rearrange your room several times
What strategy is used where the desks are slanted and there's more space in the classroom?
Packing them sideways
What does "packing them sideways" mean
Slant some desks so there's more space and students are closer to you
A comfortable distance between the teacher and student's desks is ____ feet
8
What is a suggestion for an overcrowded classroom
(Bonus Points if you state both)
Don't make a fifth row and put extra students at the end of the 2 walkways
Low time on task, performance anxiety, and talking to neighbors are all problems that can result from what?
Reading groups of students
What is a teacher's walkway and what does it look like?
An area a teacher walks in that has easy mobility and wide path
Putting students in partner pairs is a _______ to off track reading groups
Solution
Forming teacher "moving squads" can resolve what?
People Issues
Why may furniture be an obstacle in the classroom?
It can block walkways, preventing easy mobility and students/teachers could trip over furniture if in the way
What are "moving squads?"
(Bonus Points)
Teachers get together and move furniture in their classrooms
The goal is efficiency and the _______ room arrangement allows you to get from any students to another in the fewest steps
Optimal
To encourage cooperative learning what can you do to the rows?
Lay each section of every row out in even numbers
What other solution besides having students in partner pairs could fix the problem of reading groups of students?
Having students whisper read to themselves