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This is just a fun way to set up desks. The students feel like a big team, but still have a partner to work with, if needed. This arrangement will take up far more classroom floor space.

26 Students | Classroom Seating Charts

Classroom Seating Chart: Maze

Not perfect circles, but rather more egg-like, these two small circles of desks are good for students moving into groups. You could use this seating arrangement to your advantage by having students get into different groups throughout the lesson or day and switch seats. It certainly would keep the students awake!

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Classroom Seating Chart: Flat Tires

This seating chart works best of you tend to lecture more than not. Students will be able to pick out a central location in the room and move their chairs accordingly to see the instruction. It is a simple design that is easy to straighten at the end of the class period or day.

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Classroom Seating Chart: Log Lines

In my classroom, I use behavior trackers for a small group of students to help support them in making positive decisions throughout the school day.

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Classroom Behavior Trackers

This is a typical grouping of desks into teams of 4. This setup works best when teams work together in cooperative learning activities or in competition with one team against another. Incorporating team-building activities into your curriculum is necessary in order for the students to “buy-in” to a team that may not necessarily consist of friends.

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Classroom Seating Chart: Four Square

One year, my administration required teachers to keep anecdotal data on students who were constantly interrupting the learning process. Keeping up with that and student assessment of learning, I thought I would die.

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Organizing Anecdotal Files

Perfect for literature discussions, project analysis, debates, and lectures, this arrangement will work perfectly for those group activities. Desks will have to be pulled apart for independent work and assessment, but if you have a classroom full of whole group work, this might be a great alternative!

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Classroom Seating Chart: Lasso

One large square shape with a couple of back row seats completes this example. This would be great for public speaking presentations where the students would have to present in the middle of the square. Another idea would be an opportunity for open discussion so that the students would be able to face one another for proper discussion etiquette.

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Classroom Seating Chart: Boxing Ring