Question

Mr. Cicardo arranged his second grade students in groups of four to accommodate group work for math. Students keep their desks in this arrangement at all times. During spelling​ tests, Mr. Cicardo reminds students to look only at their papers and demonstrate their individual ability to spell the words.​ Occasionally, he finds students looking at a​ neighbor's paper anyway. During language arts​ lessons, Mr. Cicardo often sees students mouthing messages to one another in their​ groups, and he reminds them to pay attention to the lesson. When Mr. Cicardo works with small reading​ groups, the rest of the class works on independent seatwork. This is a time when students often collaborate and talk with others seated nearby. The noise is distracting to students who are working​ quietly, and it disturbs the reading group being conducted.​ So, Mr. Cicardo frequently needs to remind students that this is independent​ work, not group work.

Describe specific changes Mr. Cicardo might make in both classroom arrangement and classroom procedures to improve the learning environment and increase academic learning time.

Answer 1

The specific changes Mr. Cicardo should make in both classroom arrangement and classroom procedures to improve the learning environment and increase academic learning time are;

Reduce the group size from four to three to accommodate for group work without nose apart from this the space between the groups for group work should be increased. The arrangement of the students should be done in such a way that academically good kids should be made to sit along with the poor ones so that the whole class learns

The space between students in the independent seatwork should be increased so that they are not able to talk and disturb the class. The most talkative and disturbing kids should be made to sit closer to the teacher so that he or she does not disturb the class.