Each teacher has to decide the question of seating students at their desks. This is of particular importance in the lower grades, first of all - in relation to first graders who are just “learning to learn” and do not know how to control their attention and behavior.
When seating students in the classroom, the teacher guides different criteria. The physique is of a certain importance - after all, if a student is sitting in front of a small child much taller than him, the schoolchild will hardly see the blackboard. In some cases, the decisive factor is the state of health - the visually impaired child has to be seated closer to the board. But in most cases, the teacher relies on the psychological characteristics of the children.
Leading eye and leading ear
One of the individual characteristics of a person is associated with the asymmetry of the cerebral hemispheres. Some people have the right hemisphere, while others have the left. A person with a right-brain dominant is not always left-handed, but in most cases, the dominant hemisphere defines the dominant eye and the dominant ear.
A psychologically literate teacher always takes into account such characteristics of children when seating them at their desks, especially when it comes to first graders. After all, seven-year-old children have not yet formed voluntary attention, and if you put a child with a leading left eye at the window located to his left, he will not look at the board, but out the window. A first grader with a leading right ear, sitting against the wall on the right, will listen more to what is happening behind it than to the teacher's words.
Children need to be seated so that the leading senses are facing the teacher and the blackboard. Boys are oriented primarily by the leading eye, and girls by the leading ear.
The teacher can diagnose these features with the help of simple tests that he offers to children in the form of a game: "look through a telescope", "put a watch on the desk and listen to how it ticks." Children involuntarily "bring" an imaginary telescope to the leading eye, and tilt the leading ear to an imaginary or real watch.
Other features
In the course of classes, other psychological traits of children become apparent, which also have to be taken into account.
Students who are restless, inclined to be constantly distracted, are seated by teachers closer to their desk so that it is more convenient to control them. Mischievous people who like to attract the attention of their classmates by their defiant behavior are put on the back desk, thereby depriving them of the opportunity to “play for the audience”.
Many teachers put choleric children at the same desk with phlegmatic or melancholic: the presence of a calm classmate has a pacifying effect on an overly excitable child.
A good option is to put friends at the same desk, but if they talk to each other more than they do in class, they have to be seated.
Often, teachers take the academic achievement factor into account. The laggards are put next to the excellent students so that the strong students help the weak. True, in this case, the teacher must be sure that it will be help, and not cheating.
