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According to studies giving students voice and choice in their learning increases their motivation, social – emotional relationships, as well as engagement in classes no matter what content. What if we gave them options as to where they could sit with flexible seating? “With 80% of the employees in the world being deskless”, Desk-less classrooms seem to be the way to go. Over the course of the past year and a half or so, I have read and heard about this phenomenon with desk-less or flexible seating and thought I should give it a shot. I have experimented with flexible seating in smaller ways – rolling chairs, bungee chairs in the classroom, etc. I have found that students enjoy being in class more, are more engaged, and actually want to get to class on time! When I first started researching this I thought, how can that work? ‘Desk-less’? Where do you do your work at? After my beginning experimentation at flexible seating classroom design I could easily see that by making the classroom a place that students want to be, and allowing student’s choice within our space would achieve the overall goal, which will drive student engagement and willingness to participate in class. This, in a foreign language class is key to lowering the barrier in order to practice and not feel inhibited to not want to participate and go out on a limb in front of the other students. When students hit puberty their ‘wall’ goes up (ending their ‘critical period’ of language acquisition) making it more difficult to acquire language. Similar to a quote from Step Brothers you could say that ‘desk-less’ classrooms would give us ‘more room for activities’ which would be wonderful – space is always an issue, no matter what classroom you are in.

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According to studies giving students voice and choice in their learning increases their motivation, social – emotional relationships, as well as engagement in classes no matter what content. What if we gave them options as to where they could sit with flexible seating? “With 80% of the employees in the world being deskless”, Desk-less classrooms seem to be the way to go. Over the course of the past year and a half or so, I have read and heard about this phenomenon with desk-less or flexible seating and thought I should give it a shot. I have experimented with flexible seating in smaller ways – rolling chairs, bungee chairs in the classroom, etc. I have found that students enjoy being in class more, are more engaged, and actually want to get to class on time! When I first started researching this I thought, how can that work? ‘Desk-less’? Where do you do your work at? After my beginning experimentation at flexible seating classroom design I could easily see that by making the classroom a place that students want to be, and allowing student’s choice within our space would achieve the overall goal, which will drive student engagement and willingness to participate in class. This, in a foreign language class is key to lowering the barrier in order to practice and not feel inhibited to not want to participate and go out on a limb in front of the other students. When students hit puberty their ‘wall’ goes up (ending their ‘critical period’ of language acquisition) making it more difficult to acquire language. Similar to a quote from Step Brothers you could say that ‘desk-less’ classrooms would give us ‘more room for activities’ which would be wonderful – space is always an issue, no matter what classroom you are in.

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