Five Fantastic Ways to Make Flexible Seating Happen in your Room!

There have been a number of Facebook posts recently from teachers moving from primary grades to sixth grade.  One of their big concerns is how to arrange a classroom for older students, who are still kids in many ways.

I have a few pictures of the way I've set up my classroom the past few years which you can see here. This year, I'm going to have the students design the classroom on the first day.  It's Project-Based Learning at its best!  Starting in randomly-assigned groups where they'll have a few minutes to introduce themselves, they'll start talking and planning what our room should look like.

• Want desks at full-size?  Great!  
• Should some be lowered so they can sit on the floor and work?  Okay!  
• What about the kidney table?  
• The bungee chairs, the pillows, the soccer chairs?
• They'll get to decide

It'll be interesting to see what they come up with!  They'll have to present their ideas to the class and then together, we'll come up with a workable plan.  To be honest, I keep trying to talk myself out of this, but part of me keeps coming back to it.

In the meantime, here are some posts from other teachers who have blogged about how they've arranged things.  See if you can find some good suggestions here!
Simply Secondary also had some great ideas!