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Rethinking Classroom Seating With Caves, Campfires, and Watering Holes
An unconventional desk arrangement quickly and easily accommodates three different types of classroom work—solo, small group, and whole class instruction.
With classroom chock full of 32 students, high school English language arts teacher Tyler Rablin was looking for a seating arrangement that could accommodate different modes of teaching and learning: solo work, small group collaboration, and whole class instruction. Loosely adapting the concept of caves, campfires, and watering holes from a 1996 essay by educational futurist and author David Thornburg on learning environments, Rablin experimented with students moving their desks and chairs in order to transition from one mode to another, but found that it simply took too long—not to mention it was highly disruptive.
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