I'm sure we've all seen memes such as this one: Well, this morning as I was attempting to complete the great seating chart puzzle once again (Got another new student--this one was a record: they enrolled her and had her sitting in a desk in my classroom twenty minutes later---it's amazing what count day will do for bureaucratic efficiency!) and I couldn't help but think of this meme. Then, for some unknown reason I started thinking about my own school experiences, particularly math class. I too asked the question: "When will I ever use this?", especially in precalculus and trigonometry. Who knew it would be in a career as an ESL teacher! Strangely, my reaction to completing a new seating chart is also very similar to the completion of one of those impossible math homework assignments as well....however short lived it may be. But of course the best is always the students' reaction when they come in and discover what you've done (because of course you weren't in the hall telling them, "You have a new seat" and those words coming out of your mouth not three seconds before weren't, "You're new seat is at the green table." That couldn't have been what you said, because if it were they wouldn't walk to their old seat, see a new name and then have this expression: I think my favorite part is the one student who talks the most, and is generally the cause of the new seating chart, coming in and exclaiming with the level of incredulity that only a middle school student can: "Why did you move MY seat?"! Although a very close second might be the look of absolute joy mixed with complete terror on the face of the really sweet hard working boy that you placed in the seat next to the cutest girl in class--a win/win situation if there ever was one: I get a buffer between her and the other boys and that hard working student gets rewarded.
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