A top sales performer at Delcom Group for a decade, Sean Delph manages several key accounts for the Texas-based company. In his role with Delcom Group, Sean Delph markets and sells leading educational products, such as collaborative furniture for classrooms, to the company's client base. In one learning environment, introducing chairs with wheels sparked greater collaboration among students.
In traditional classrooms, teachers often given assignments to groups of students in an attempt to motivate teamwork. While this strategy can work if the students have good relationships, the experience can be limiting for other students if they do not interact well with fellow group members. With rolling chairs, students can have the freedom to select work spaces and form their own groups. But the chairs also encourage fluid movement, so students can turn to others outside their group for advice or reconfigure or subdivide their teams to make progress.
Although a simple tool, rolling chairs can give students exposure to the type of open collaboration they can experience in the adult world. School systems should explore rolling chairs and other collaborative furniture options to give their students strong, team-based experiences.
In traditional classrooms, teachers often given assignments to groups of students in an attempt to motivate teamwork. While this strategy can work if the students have good relationships, the experience can be limiting for other students if they do not interact well with fellow group members. With rolling chairs, students can have the freedom to select work spaces and form their own groups. But the chairs also encourage fluid movement, so students can turn to others outside their group for advice or reconfigure or subdivide their teams to make progress.
Although a simple tool, rolling chairs can give students exposure to the type of open collaboration they can experience in the adult world. School systems should explore rolling chairs and other collaborative furniture options to give their students strong, team-based experiences.