Welcome to Room 274 of East Hickman High School! Actually, I have seince rearranged the chairs so the students can also see the white board in the back of the room and will be less likely to spend all their time staring out the window to see what's going on outside. The room is not so large as my old one, but it's adequate in size, though sadly lacking in bookshelves.
I have to relate the story on that. My friend and I moved our things from the old school last week; we took bookcases that we either bought or repaired and had them alll set up in the rooms. When the director of schools did a walk through before the dedication, he had a fit over the bookcases that did not match the furniture. They took the bookcases off to storage and crammed all my books into the built in cabinets and closed the doors.
They had not ordered any bookcases for the classrooms and seemed to find it odd that we would want any.
I have 20 dictionaries I didn't even move yet. The student desks do not have any book racks on them, and I have no bookcases. And I am supposed to be teaching English! Of course the director of schools IS the same person who once said in an evaluation of one of my college prep senior English classes that I had them doing an excessive amount of pencil-and-paper work.
Anyhow, we are supposed to get smartboard training next week. I hope that goes well.
1 comment:
Now why in the world would an English teacher need bookshelves? It's not like you read or do any literature evaluation. And actually doing writing is totally archaic in this digital age.
Now I need to go make more bookshelves so I can actually put out the rest of my books. I miss them.
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