Want kids to pay attention in class? Give them standing desks

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Want kids to pay attention in class? Give them standing desks

For years, teachers have been searching for ways to get students to be more attentive in class.

Mark Benden, Ph.D., CPE, associate professor at the Texas A&M Health Science Center School of Public Health, may have the answer: standing desks.

A recent study in the International Journal of Health Promotion and Education published by Benden and other researchers from Texas A&M found that students provided with standing desks exhibited higher rates of engagement in the classroom than their seated counterparts. Preliminary results show 12 percent greater on-task engagement in classrooms with standing desks, which equates to an extra seven minutes per hour of engaged instruction time. The findings were based on a study of almost 300 children in second through fourth grade who were observed over the course of a school year. Engagement was measured by on-task behaviors such as answering a question, raising a hand or participating in active discussion and off-task behaviors like talking out of turn.

http://news.tamhsc.edu/?post=want-ki...standing-desks

[Dictator]

Poor legs.