Hi, early career teaching secondary here and i am having issues with behaviour management….
I am attributing a significant portion of this due to the room changes on my classes. My timetable is a bit of a shit show. For example, one class has 5 different rooms across the timetable. Another one of my junior classes has three different rooms across the timetable. Its making it very hard for me to implement an effective seating plan as each room has tables set wildly differently and vastly different room layouts.
Is anyone in the same boat? How are you managing? Do you just allocate 10 mins of each lesson to get the kids to reshuffle and reconfigure the room knowing you will lose considerable learning time each lesson?
Changing the rooms to a more consistent and predictable pattern is not really possible.