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I didnt want to further hijack the thankful thread so I thought I would start a new one.....
here is my post from over there:
Well to answer the question, yes the school has chalk boards....when they get worn, the school takes the special "blackboard" paint and resurfaces it.
My classroom had a 4x12 ft chalkboard...when I inquired about getting a dry erase board because I had an open wall that would have been perfect, they said that they could recover the chalkboard.....they wanted to use a 4x8 sheet of shower board and liqiud nail it to the existing chalkboard....in effect giving me 4x8 of dry erase and 4x4 chalk....I thought that this would actually cut down on my available writing surface
they were unwilling to give me a white board in addition to the complete 4x12ft chalkboard.....so I made my own and since I paid for the materials, I durn sure wasnt going to make it a permanent fixture to that classroom!!!
my current classroom has 3 walls completely covered with chalk boards (4ft by the length of the wall).....and the 4th wall has windows.....we are getting a new building and I have requested dry erase instead of chalk
If teachers want something specific in their classroom other than what the school has provided, then the teachers more or less has to provide it themselves.....I got $100 for supplies last year....I used it to buy binders to put my confidential files in....then I also needed the tabbed divider things....all in all I needed about 35 of them....my $100 barely covered all of the binders....any inkpens, pencils, desk calendar, markers, highlighters, stapler, tape dispenser, white out, scissors, staples, tape, rubberbands, stampers, bulletin board decorations, etc must either be purchased with your $100 allotment or you pay for it out of pocket....I teach at both the elementary and high school (same school--seperate towns) so I had 2 classrooms to use the $100 on...
and I used mine on the binders....they were 2inch gray 3-ring binders that were IIRC ~$2 each and then the tabbed dividers were ~$1 each...I actually ended up needing more by mid-year or so and those DID come out of my pocket....and since I used all of my supply monies on binders, any and all other supplies that I purchased came out of my pocket as well.
Rachel
here is my post from over there:
I have one of those dry erase boards....we liquid nailed it to a sheet of plywood and put trim on the top and bottom....I used L brackets to attach it to the wall in my classroom...this way when/if I got another teaching position, I could take the Dry erase board with me....we did end up having to screw it to the wall on the sides, because even in the brackets, it bowed out a bit....
I have transfered to another school, but my new classroom doesnt have room for it so it is just in my hallway
Well to answer the question, yes the school has chalk boards....when they get worn, the school takes the special "blackboard" paint and resurfaces it.
My classroom had a 4x12 ft chalkboard...when I inquired about getting a dry erase board because I had an open wall that would have been perfect, they said that they could recover the chalkboard.....they wanted to use a 4x8 sheet of shower board and liqiud nail it to the existing chalkboard....in effect giving me 4x8 of dry erase and 4x4 chalk....I thought that this would actually cut down on my available writing surface
they were unwilling to give me a white board in addition to the complete 4x12ft chalkboard.....so I made my own and since I paid for the materials, I durn sure wasnt going to make it a permanent fixture to that classroom!!!
my current classroom has 3 walls completely covered with chalk boards (4ft by the length of the wall).....and the 4th wall has windows.....we are getting a new building and I have requested dry erase instead of chalk
If teachers want something specific in their classroom other than what the school has provided, then the teachers more or less has to provide it themselves.....I got $100 for supplies last year....I used it to buy binders to put my confidential files in....then I also needed the tabbed divider things....all in all I needed about 35 of them....my $100 barely covered all of the binders....any inkpens, pencils, desk calendar, markers, highlighters, stapler, tape dispenser, white out, scissors, staples, tape, rubberbands, stampers, bulletin board decorations, etc must either be purchased with your $100 allotment or you pay for it out of pocket....I teach at both the elementary and high school (same school--seperate towns) so I had 2 classrooms to use the $100 on...
and I used mine on the binders....they were 2inch gray 3-ring binders that were IIRC ~$2 each and then the tabbed dividers were ~$1 each...I actually ended up needing more by mid-year or so and those DID come out of my pocket....and since I used all of my supply monies on binders, any and all other supplies that I purchased came out of my pocket as well.
Rachel