Seat Change

Such a weird concept to be stressed about, but moving seats in my classroom gives me anxiety. Even when my teaching partner came and saw what I was doing, she reassured my feelings about it. Glad it wasn’t just me. My principal asked that I try and keep them in groups of four, for cooperative learning purposes. Since I only have twenty kids this year (NOT complaining), the combinations are slim. I have many students that cannot sit by each other, which makes the combinations even slimmer.

I sat at my desk all day today drafting my new arrangement. I wrote, erased, rewrote, and rethought. It took me about three drafts this time to finally get it done. Now it’s time to move them. I used to have my students move the desks themselves, but that gave me anxiety too. They literally can’t be any louder or messier when doing it, so now I just do that on my own after school. As I am moving the desks, new changes always come to mind, so there are always a few last minute adjustments. After a while, I am just like screw it, we’re going with it.

Tomorrow morning they will come in all excited that they have new seats. Well most. I’m sure I will have some complain. Then within an hour I will determine whether or not I was successful in my arrangement. I’m sure I will ask myself what I was thinking at least three or four times. As I am typing this I also realized this week has a time change, full moon, Friday the 13th, and now a seat change. Well planned. We will see how this goes.