The question of seating students at their desks has to be decided by each teacher. This is of particular importance in the elementary 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 various criteria. The physique is of some importance - because if a student sits in front of a small child, much taller than him, the blackboard will not be visible to the student. In some cases, the state of health is a decisive factor - a visually impaired child has to be planted closer to the blackboard. But in most cases, the teacher relies on the psychological characteristics of children.
Lead eye and lead ear
One of the individual characteristics of a person is associated with asymmetry of the cerebral hemispheres. In some people, the leading hemisphere is right, in others - the left. A person with a leading right hemisphere is not always left-handed, but in most cases the leading hemisphere defines the leading eye and the leading ear.
A psychologically competent teacher always takes these features of children into account when setting them up at their desks, especially when it comes to first-graders. Indeed, arbitrary attention has not yet been formed in seven-year-old children, and if you put a child with a leading left eye at the window located to his left, he will look not at the board, but at the window. A first grader with a leading right ear, sitting against the wall located on the right, will listen more to what is happening behind her than to the words of the teacher.
Children need to be seated so that the leading senses are facing the teacher and the blackboard. Boys are oriented mainly 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 the children in the form of a game: “look through the spyglass”, “put the clock 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 the imaginary or real watch.
