ELT365 · Day 215 — Seating Plans — Horseshoe, Rows, Clusters

Idea

Each seating arrangement carries a message about who talks to whom. Change the furniture and you change the default interaction pattern.

Example

Clusters encourage peer discussion but make it harder for the teacher to address the group. Rows make monitoring writing tasks easier.

Try

For your next lesson, decide the layout before you plan the first activity — then check they match.

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