Where your students sit is just as important as which students you have. If you put a bad student next to a good student, the bad behavior might rub off on the otherwise well-behaved student. Also, if you sandwich a poor student between two excellent students their good nature might turn the one away from the dark side.

The size of your classroom, as well as it's shape, is going to dictate a lot of what you can and can't do with the seating assignments. Before you start moving desks all over the place you'll want to have a little forethought and map out what your end vision will be. There are a number of factors that will effect your seating, so you should try to consider as many as possible.

What kind of work will your class be doing? If there will be a lot of working together as groups, or any sort of cooperative learning going on, you'll want to adjust the seating accordingly.

How much moving around will you be doing? If you're the kind of teacher that likes to explore the different areas of the classroom while you are giving your lesson, be sure to give yourself ample space to move around. Otherwise you'll be bumping into students and objects in the class and you'll lose your focus.

Do you like discussions as a group? If you do you'll want to arrange the chairs so that the students can face each other rather than stare at the backs of each other's heads while they're having an intellectual debate.

Where is the whiteboard? More importantly, are you going to use it a lot or a little? If you are using it a lot make sure the chairs will face it. If you have more than one focal point, say a whiteboard and an overhead projector, you'll want to position the chairs in a way that your students won't have to be contortionists in order to pay attention to your lesson.

How do you pass your papers back? If you are a teacher that insists on passing back papers individually, you'll want to leave enough room between the desks to be able to get through to each student. If you don't, you'll be bumping desks in a virtual labyrinth of students as you try to make your way through all of the papers.

Are there kids with special needs? If so you'll need to take them into consideration and let them sit in the front row if it's a vision problem, or on the front corner if they have a wheelchair, or close to you if they are a behavioral problem.

Once you've attended to each of these questions you can create a seating pattern that works for you. Once you've decided, don't worry if you have to change it up a little during the year, as conditions change. Also, you might do well to change it up at strategic points of the year to give students a fresh outlook on your class.

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