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We often find students prefer standing around a desk rather than sitting around a desk for discussion. Students in both classes are free to move around the room as needed. We have found that students need time out of their seats to help them focus. Currently students will hunch around a desk to collaboratively work on solving problems, such as an equation. The use of paper means that one student is working on the paper while the others are watching. The use of a standing dry erase desk would allow all students in the group to actively participate in solving the problem as a group. One of the desks would be for students to use as a collaborative learning area in our classroom. During class, we provide our students with personalized individual instruction to help them progress in Mathematics. Because so many of our students require individual assistance during class, my co-teacher and I move through the class non-stop. We walk around the classroom, helping students throughout the period. This requires us to be at a table near our computers and projector so we can advance slides or present additional information on a document camera. Because we don’t sit down during class, we have had to get creative to make our work area as ergonomic as possible to avoid neck or back pain from constantly bending or looking down as we teach our lessons using the slideshow or document camera. We originally thought a simple solution to bring the computers and projector nearer to our eye level would be to use stacked boxes to create more of a standing desk scenario. Unfortunately, we found that stacking multiple cardboard or plastic boxes together was not a sturdy solution for our electronic devices because our boxes were unstable.

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We often find students prefer standing around a desk rather than sitting around a desk for discussion. Students in both classes are free to move around the room as needed. We have found that students need time out of their seats to help them focus. Currently students will hunch around a desk to collaboratively work on solving problems, such as an equation. The use of paper means that one student is working on the paper while the others are watching. The use of a standing dry erase desk would allow all students in the group to actively participate in solving the problem as a group. One of the desks would be for students to use as a collaborative learning area in our classroom. During class, we provide our students with personalized individual instruction to help them progress in Mathematics. Because so many of our students require individual assistance during class, my co-teacher and I move through the class non-stop. We walk around the classroom, helping students throughout the period. This requires us to be at a table near our computers and projector so we can advance slides or present additional information on a document camera. Because we don’t sit down during class, we have had to get creative to make our work area as ergonomic as possible to avoid neck or back pain from constantly bending or looking down as we teach our lessons using the slideshow or document camera. We originally thought a simple solution to bring the computers and projector nearer to our eye level would be to use stacked boxes to create more of a standing desk scenario. Unfortunately, we found that stacking multiple cardboard or plastic boxes together was not a sturdy solution for our electronic devices because our boxes were unstable.

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