My firsties are tomorrow's future. They enter "our" classroom community each day with smiles on their faces and ready to learn.
These amazing students are motivated to learn and work cooperatively with each other to become successful, as individuals and as a classroom community.
We are a Title 1 school with a total enrollment of just over 400 children. 67% of our students receive free and/or reduced meals.
Seventeen wonderful students make up our classroom family. Of these students, three receive speech services and one receives special education services. A majority of my students come from low socioeconomic families, and a large percent of them receive free lunch. However, this does not stop my students from becoming excited and eager about learning.
I want to provide a learning environment that will make my students even more eager and excited about learning. The tables will allow me to do just that.
My Project
To enhance classroom learning, I would like to transition to tables instead of desks. There are many reasons the 60" flower activity tables will make a positive impact on student academic progress and learning. First, collaboration is easier. Students are able to sit within close proximity to work together in small groups. Research has shown that collaboration among students is essential to student success.
Collaborative learning allows students with different backgrounds, race, or up bringing to work together.
In order to solve a project's given problem, children need to communicate. Tables take up less space and support a community environment. The extra space is conducive to inquiry-based and hand-on learning. In addition, more space allows for other comfy furniture like bean bags and fun floor type chairs. Tables don't shift and drift apart from one another. This makes the room much quieter. Desks move around the room and create a noisy environment for wiggly first graders. Tables also provide a cleaner environment and promote organization. Students no longer have a desk to just throw things into. The tables force the students to put things in their place. Children don't waste time looking for books, folders, and other materials and you will never find a moldy snack “in” a table. Also, students no longer have a place to hide distracting things they like to play with.
More than half of students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more
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