I teach US History in large public high school. The students that I teach are in a resource setting. I am getting booted out of my classroom in favor of a new computer lab. Instead of landing in another classroom inside the building, I have been sentenced to a mobile unit. My school has five mobile units. Next year all will house special education students. I have stated a case to my principal. He states sympathy but says that the numbers of general education students dictate a vacated classroom will go to a general ed teacher. Any advice out there?
Re: losing classroom space for a trailer
Thanks for your note of encouragement. I may just look for another school.
Re: losing classroom space for a trailer
Or tutor the kids the system’s failing… work with homeschoolers who’ve gotten disgusted, too (encourage ‘em to get disgusted & hire you to design the kids’ curriculum…)
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I gave up the chance to have almost my own classroom and was a roving teacher in that circumstance. I taught in other teachers’ rooms that taught my subject area (I taught all the content areas; the school was only 1100 students). It really helped to be in a “regular” classroom. (That and I NEVER had to make a bulletin board!!)
It fundamentally sucks.
I’d keep on making it as “real” and “normal” as I could… but it gets harder with every move like that :-(