Effective communication in the classroom
is essential to the success of both
the student and the teacher.! The kind
of communication as well as the amount
of communication that occurs in the
classroom has long been thought to be
partially a function of the seating arRod
W. McVetta
rangement of stUdents. While there probably
is an infinite number of ways of
arranging a classroom, three are most
common: traditional, horseshoe, and
modular.
The traditional. arrangement (see
Figure I) for classrooms typically consists
of about five or six perfectly straight
rows, each containing five to seven chairs
equidistant from each other-or as
Rosenfeld and Civikly say, "something
like tombstones in a military cemetery.