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STRATEGY
How to Create a Seating Chart
Base your first seating chart, which you should make as soon as you receive your class rosters, on the alphabetical order of your students' last names. This is a good way to learn every student's name quickly. In a few days, after you get to know your students, you should make up a permanent seating chart based on other factors. Here's how:
- Begin by drawing a diagram of your room in which each desk is represented by
a rectangle.
- Using your class roster, pencil the names of your students on your diagram.
Begin with the students who must sit in a certain area of the room due to medical issues or the terms of their Individualized Education Plan or 504 Plan.
- After you have considered students with special needs, move on to the students
who misbehave in their current seat. Place them where they can focus on you
and their work rather than on having fun with their classmates.
- Finally, move the rest of your students. Do your best to find each student a seat
that will be comfortable for his or her size and temperament.
Excerpted from Section Five, "Have a Fantastic First Day," of The First-Year Teacher's Survival Guide, by Julia G. Thompson. Copyright © 2007 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. This material is used by permission of John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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