Top Ten Flexible Seating Arrangments For Classrooms

Flexible Seating is an up and coming way to help students in your classroom keep focused and engaged. Students with disabilities also use flexible seating to their advantage. This new trend has taken over classrooms and teachers are searching for the easiest ways to keep their flexible seating, cute, cheap, and manageable.

1. Wobble Stools

Allows students to lean, tilt, rock

Allows students to move

Use with table or desk $50-100

2.Stability Balls

With or without legs

With or without base

Many different sizes

Use with table or desk

3.Lowered Tables

Allows children to sit on the floor

Group work spaces

May be able to adjust height on tables you already have

4.Standing Station

Many variations

May be able to adjust the height of exisiting table

Platform on top of desk

Foot rest at the bottom

5.Fidget bands

Attach to tables, chairs, desks

Allows students to move their feet and legs

6.Yoga Mats

Allows students to lay or sit

Individual work space

Use on floor

7.Discs or Wedges

Inflatable to different difficulties

Use with floor or chair

Dots provides sensory input

With or without dots

8.Floor Rockers

Floor seating

With or without back support

Allows students to rock

9.Rugs and Floor sqaures

Many shapes and sizes

Whole class, small group, or indivdual work

10.Padded seating

Comfortable

Examples: Cushions, Benie Bag chairs