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6th Seating Charts
By Janie

My 6th grade students change classes as well. Desk name tags are made for my homeroom students. I make a master seating chart showing all seating charts for each class in the arrangement at the time. A copy is posted for
students;other copies are kept in my gradebook and lesson plan book. To help manage faces of who sits where, students take digital pictures of each other which I enter in Microsoft Word program to organize and print out my seating charts (simple database). All classes get to change their seating every 4 weeks. The arrangement of desks changes as the year progresses (partner desks, E shapes

on both sides, small groups of 3 or 4, Gameboard shape-when we use this design, students make and design a magnet label (6 X 18) to put on the front of their desks (ex: Marty Wilkin's Real Estate, Asa Johnson's Pizza Place). Sometimes takes extra minutes to set up, but this really helps me keep students organize. I never tell them when desks change. Watching them come in looking for their desk is great fun. Looking for ideas is never ending for me and this board interaction has indeed helped organized my classroom.

I apology for being so lengthy, but I just finished another week of classes that was the greatest...I am so pumped to start the school...a bit nervous too. Anyway, we viewed a video on this guy named Ben Zander...incredible!brilliant! I am trying to find the videos to show my 6th grade. The other to look for is Rick Stiggins...engaging learning activities are fantastic...will share later. Have a great year.