Chicken lady
8-15-17, 11:11am
Ok, this is where I overreact to get it out of my system.
i am teaching two almost completely unrelated equipment and materials intensive subjects in my classroom two full days (8 individual classes) and two half days a week. (Although my halfs (2 classes) - may get cut to a single class of an hour and a half on each of those two days)
i just found out out that I am getting a roommate. The new physics teacher. Who will be teaching a single hour and a half class that meets two mornings a week. I have been told that she will need the shelf (which holds general supplies everybody uses) and both cupboards at the front of my classroom - half my cupboards. And also some wall space. There is no wall space. It's behind cupboards. Or above the lockers and covered in decorative tiles the kids made. She cannot block my kids' lockers.
i realize that physics is materials intensive. But already, when I was just teaching pottery, I was schlepping stuff back and forth from home every day (up the stairs to the third floor, at least two trips) because there wasn't room to store things I only needed for one unit.
each kid needs two cubic feet of storage space to hold their clay and tools. (The tools are a very small part of that, so even if they carried them home and forgot them over and over, it wouldn't help much) plus space for projects that are under construction. My classes are very full next year, so I have more kids just in my 4 one day pottery classes than I had in 6 last year. Plus that tues/Thursday 1.5 hour class is a high school studio class that is going to result in larger numbers of larger pieces of student work.
deep breath. I know we will work this out. But seriously? Why do I always get physics? (Actually, I know, it's because the physics teachers keep quitting and new teachers have to take what they can get and no one wants to share a room with me)
and i don't always get physics. One year I had math. That was so nice! He needed the general supply shelf, the desk drawers, and a little piece of counter.
oh crap! What if she wants a desk? I tossed the desk last year to make room for another work table when I didn't have a roommate. Where are we going to put a desk?!
i am teaching two almost completely unrelated equipment and materials intensive subjects in my classroom two full days (8 individual classes) and two half days a week. (Although my halfs (2 classes) - may get cut to a single class of an hour and a half on each of those two days)
i just found out out that I am getting a roommate. The new physics teacher. Who will be teaching a single hour and a half class that meets two mornings a week. I have been told that she will need the shelf (which holds general supplies everybody uses) and both cupboards at the front of my classroom - half my cupboards. And also some wall space. There is no wall space. It's behind cupboards. Or above the lockers and covered in decorative tiles the kids made. She cannot block my kids' lockers.
i realize that physics is materials intensive. But already, when I was just teaching pottery, I was schlepping stuff back and forth from home every day (up the stairs to the third floor, at least two trips) because there wasn't room to store things I only needed for one unit.
each kid needs two cubic feet of storage space to hold their clay and tools. (The tools are a very small part of that, so even if they carried them home and forgot them over and over, it wouldn't help much) plus space for projects that are under construction. My classes are very full next year, so I have more kids just in my 4 one day pottery classes than I had in 6 last year. Plus that tues/Thursday 1.5 hour class is a high school studio class that is going to result in larger numbers of larger pieces of student work.
deep breath. I know we will work this out. But seriously? Why do I always get physics? (Actually, I know, it's because the physics teachers keep quitting and new teachers have to take what they can get and no one wants to share a room with me)
and i don't always get physics. One year I had math. That was so nice! He needed the general supply shelf, the desk drawers, and a little piece of counter.
oh crap! What if she wants a desk? I tossed the desk last year to make room for another work table when I didn't have a roommate. Where are we going to put a desk?!