tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8781118145403019821.post8685027581345230731..comments2024-03-26T02:14:45.728-07:00Comments on Tales from the Traveling Art Teacher!: Sharing SpacesAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15958495797601278519noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8781118145403019821.post-9477500287362446232013-11-06T18:20:19.092-08:002013-11-06T18:20:19.092-08:00Thank you so much for posting this!! I share an ar...Thank you so much for posting this!! I share an art room with another first year art teacher and him and I can be night and day. He is in my homeroom much of the day. I am very neat and orderly and my students rock at putting supplies back where they found them. It can be very frustrating to return to my room later in the day to play clean up or ask my students to clean up what is not theirs to do. It has been getting better but I do dream of the day I am in my own room all day long! I will take any advice I can get because my patience are slowly running thin, especially when my supplies are being used and ruined.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09906219490462880463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8781118145403019821.post-56225024897438916702012-12-04T14:03:40.885-08:002012-12-04T14:03:40.885-08:00I am constantly checking the room each day before ...I am constantly checking the room each day before I leave, and at times, the person I share the room with can still find something I forgot. I feel your pain!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15958495797601278519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8781118145403019821.post-54377895697450497482012-12-03T19:16:19.851-08:002012-12-03T19:16:19.851-08:00I too a teacher at two schools. At one school I a...I too a teacher at two schools. At one school I am lucky to have the room to myself as I am the only art teacher at that building. The other building I work in, I share. Luckily we are both about the same age and we are pretty laid back. There have been frustrations like - who used the last of the hot glue (my fault), who didn't check and make sure the glue bottles were shut after their kids used them.... drying of paint cups, brushes, having subs leave things out where they don't belong.... Overall I find it frustrating because the room never really feels like your room. I can't leave out projects when I am running late, or if I move furniture for a project, I have to put it back. The walls never really are personalized for more than a project or two. I think the MOST frustrating part about it is that there is ONE day we aren't there and though it has gotten better - it often felt that our space was really a supply closet for other teachers. Sharpies, crayons, paint would go missing -- that has gotten better with a few emails and keys to our supply cabinets.<br /><br />Ms Novakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09664190928079250983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8781118145403019821.post-88345219703048895072012-11-17T10:24:30.975-08:002012-11-17T10:24:30.975-08:00I hear ya! This story was about my second school ...I hear ya! This story was about my second school (I travel to two). I'm there a day and a half a week (I drive to two schools in one day). At my home base school (where I'm at 3 1/2 days a week), I share the room with the music teachers. They have a 1/4th of the room, and travel by cart during the day. Even when I'm not there, the room is used by clubs and the orchestra teacher, so the music teachers still use the cart.<br /><br />I love the music teachers at all my schools. They are fun, and we share our frustrations like any family of specials teachers. With your music teacher, it's interesting how she said the principal wanted her to use the room, yet she's complaining to you and not the principal? Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15958495797601278519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8781118145403019821.post-16347838662863251092012-11-17T07:25:22.666-08:002012-11-17T07:25:22.666-08:00Heidi, I share my classroom space with a Music te...Heidi, I share my classroom space with a Music teacher. She comes in the 2 days that I am not there. It's been interesting and frustrating at the same time. We don't really communicate because there is not a common subject and only there one common day. Also, definitely on the same page with novice vs. veteran. However, she has always been on a cart, and complained that the principal wanted her to use the room. I expressed that she should share that with the principal, however she is timid when it comes to administration. <br /><br />Also, at the beginning of the year, I always come in early and I came in 2 weeks early because it was a new building to me and I knew the previous art teacher had retired. I never met the music teacher until the first day of school, so I was not aware to the extent of sharing space and she never expressed that she wanted to put anything up. So the room space is physically an art room that the kids visit for music time. She's never really complained about having space for anything, I really believe she prefers the cart and she does have her own storage room/office. I feel your pain and share what you're going through. I'm so thankful to have an art room, but I wish I didn't have to put everything away at the end of the day and "control" my art mess :)Melissahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10953401422837077467noreply@blogger.com