Fine arts department teacher Harriet Anderson teaches in a different classroom every period. Her nomadic teaching style is a product of the ongoing renovation at Clarke Central High School. “In the same way that nomads have camels, I have a cart and everything (I need for instruction) has to be on that cart,” Anderson said.
By TIERNAN O’NEILL – Editor-in-Chief
Since the start of the spring term, fine arts department teacher Harriet Anderson has been changing classrooms every class period.
Since the start of the spring term, fine arts department teacher Harriet Anderson has been changing classrooms every class period.
From the first period of the spring semester fine arts department teacher Harriet Anderson has adopted a nomadic teaching style.
“In the same way that nomads have camels, I have a cart and everything (I need for instruction) has to be on that cart,” Anderson said. “The administration has given me a storage space within one of the workrooms and so everything I have is in that storage space and packed.”
For all seven class periods as well as GLAD Time and advisement, Anderson is teaching in a different classroom–mostly on the first floor of the West Wing. She has had to adapt her lesson plan to her new environments.
“Knowing that this was coming, I chose in my Drama I to save my technical theater pieces until this point, so that while we are sitting in a more traditional classroom setting, I can have them doing more traditional written work,” Anderson said.
The new Mell Auditorium is expected to open at the start of the 2016-17 school year. Sophomore Mara Woods is in Anderson’s sixth period and plans to take a drama class next year and is excited for the new classroom.
“We have to do more worksheets and writing, than acting,” Woods said. “I miss performing on stage.”
Although Anderson has had to adjust to not having a permanent classroom, she is finding positives in her current situation.
“It’s been great getting to know a different group of teachers,” Anderson said. “Normally I am so much in my little, lightless hole that I don’t get out and meet people and nobody knows me.”
