RoomArrangement

=Classroom Arrangement=

Research
Below are resources to read or to watch. Some are digital, some are not. Any with an asterisk are required for you to use. Otherwise, select 3 or more to read/view/absorb. Additionally, using appropriate college-level research skills, you must find a resource not on this list that gives you additional insights to this topic. A professional interview with an expert-in-the-field is an appropriate resource. (3 of mine and 1 of yours is the required minimum...feel free to use more resources...see me if you want to substitute some of yours for mine)
 * Dr. Fred Jones offers some good information about [|arranging your classroom]...for both safety as well as classroom management
 * Nova is a company that sells classroom furniture, so they have a certain bias in the information they present, however, this blog entry on their site has some valuable information about [|limiting distractions by the way you arrange your room]
 * Combining two topics in one,[| this article combines what to do on the first day of school and how to arrange your classroom for the first day].
 * [|Environmental Engineering: Arranging Your Classroom Environment For Optimal Functioning]--There is a LOT of information in this article. Skim through some of the elementary ideas but there are secondary ideas and this author points out issues to think about such as where are the electrical outlets, where are you going to store dangerous or fragile items (in math class, a compass is definitely a dangerous item with two pointy ends...most any item can be made into a weapon), decorations, what can you hang from your ceiling, and even more.
 * [|Using Feng Shui to arrange your classroom]
 * [|Edutopia has great articles on the topic], including letting [|students design how the classroom should be arranged].

Reflect
Create a reflection (write/record/document) in your personal digital classroom management kit that captures your reflections on your research. It should be apparent from your documentation that you actually took in information from the 4 sources, i.e. don't just list the book you read or the video you watched, but include some actual information from the resource. In your reflection you can agree and/or disagree with the author/creator(s) of each resource.

Resolve -- Proactive
Now that you have this information on this classroom management topic, what are you going to do with it? How will you apply it to how you want to manage your classroom? Describe one or more proactive approaches to this topic that you hope to incorporate into your classroom management. OR create a visual of how you would like to arrange your ideal classroom and explain the what/why of your choices.

Resolve -- Reactive
Now that you have this information on this classroom management topic, what are you going to do with it? Even though you have a great proactive approach to dealing with this topic, there will come the day when the unexpected situation will arise in this area. Using the given scenario or creating one of your own, describe one or more reactive approaches you might take. Be sure to document how/why you know this is an effective reactive technique (i.e., cite one or more of your research sources).

Scenario

 * What's the biggest distraction in your room? Is it looking out the window? Or is it having a laptop on every desk? How often will you rearrange your room and in what configurations and for what purposes?
 * Scenario... you've got students who do inappropriate things on their iPads during your class (could be that they're just doing something other than what you need them to be doing OR could be that they're really doing "inappropriate" things).