Dear Grade School Teachers,

Ever wondered why your classroom is always loud and students seem to not pay attention when you’re teaching? Well, look around you. How are your desk set up? Desks that are in groups tend to have talkative students, however, when your seats are individually facing the board or the teacher, students tend to talk less. For example, college classes have seat that are facing the teachers. Although groups allow students to “develop skills such as communication, problem-solving, collaboration. This arrangement of desk “also lends itself to off-task behavior and large increase in noise level and distractions, per Displays2go research article. The way teachers seat students plays a major role in the learning ability of students, groups make it harder for students to learn because of talking and other distractions.