Read Chapters 4 and 5.
Consider these questions to guide your reading:
How do teachers arrange furniture in the classrooms?
Does the way teachers arrange furniture encourage or inhibit thinking?
What kind of questions do students ask in the classroom?
Does the way teachers respond to the questions encourage or inhibit thinking?
After reading, go through the google slides to help solidify your thinking.
Read '8 Classroom Seating Arrangements Teachers Love' blog. Consider this statement:
Teachers should create spaces where the arrangement of desks and tables are neither straight nor symmetrical and where chairs are placed in a way that the room is defronted.
Do you agree or disagree with this statement based on reading the blog and Chapter 4?
Open the google doc. Write a paragraph describing and defending your position.
Open the Questions google slides.
Choose a slide. Write your name in the left hand corner.
Read the 10 possible responses to stop thinking and proximity questions students ask.(Do not view the slides in 'slideshow' mode.)
Sort the questions (the ones you may keep and ones you will eliminate).
Create and add at least two more possible responses to the table.
Click here to complete the Toolkit #2a Survey.
Develop responses for the different types of questions students ask.