Organization of space in the classroom

Students gain a better understanding of teamwork and their social skills. In addition, the furniture designed for school fits the student and the theme, students can improve concentration when taking class.

Auditorium Style

Students sit in front of the teacher.

Useful aspects:

• This arrangement can create spaces on the sides, in the center or in the back through wich the teacher can move.
• It can be useful when it comes to giving a conference as it is easier to spread the look among the attendees and focus their attention on your presentation.

Not useful aspects:

• This arrangement prevents face to face contact between students as all they see is the teacher directly or the teacher and their classmates backs.
• interaction and participation among the members of the groups are reduced since they preferentially adopt a role of listening.

Seminar Style

Students sitting in a circule, square or U shape.

Useful aspects:

• Significantly increase the participation of students in any type of activity, debate, that you propose.
• The classroom becomes a more democratic space in with there are no differences in status, but rather both teacher and student are part of the teaching-learning process.

Not useful aspects:

• When the number of students is excessively large, it can be very difficult to find a classroom that allows everyone to be located in a U-shape.

Face To Face Style 

Students sitting face to face.

Useful aspects:

• Being an opposed position, it provokes many more discussions and debates that can enrich the learning and critical spirit of the students.
• It easily allows you to work in pairs or quartets, also creating the possibility of beginning teamwork.

Not useful aspects:

• Easily allows distractions since many topics arise within the group that sometimes have nothing to do with the content of the session.
• In some arrangements, some students turn their backs on others and this makes it difficult to communicate and interact with classmates who have their backs.

Grouped Style

Students sitting in small groups.

Useful aspects:

• Allows the development of collaborative learning activities and enhances teamwork skills, collaboration, coordination, distribution of tasks and roles.
• students who have more difficulty working in large groups fell calmer in small group and can thus increase their integration in it.

Not useful aspects:

• From some dispositions it may be more difficult to observe the teacher, a colleague who is speaking or even the explanations given on the blackboard.

Well, as you see, all these provisions have their strengths and weaknesses. Ideally, you should combine each of them at different times depending on the objectives you intend to achieve. It is also true that each teacher can have our preferences.