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In my overseas American school, we need to order all of our classroom materials approximately one year in advance. We start school in September, and must immediately start preparing our order for the following school year. The orders then have to be typed, and sent to America. The orders are sent through international shipping, and hopefully are here by the following September (some years, we have had to start without new materials if the shipment doesn’t arrive in time).
For any other teachers reading this blog, I’d be interested to know how far in advance others place their orders (either in the United States, or outside of it).
Eileen
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March 27, 2008 at 5:23 pm
I just came across your blog while looking for pictures of Dubai.
I’m a teacher in an inner city school in Houston & we don’t have to worry about when to order supplies because we don’t get any.
We have textbooks to use and a communal closet filled with books.
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Emily.
March 30, 2008 at 9:17 am
Emily,
Thanks for visiting my blog! I see I should explain something. The reason we are ordering materials is that the students are unable to buy things like American paper in our location. The paper used in other parts of the world is not only a different size, but has completely different kinds of lines! (It feels a bit like if you tried to write an essay on graph paper.)
Anyway, the price the students pay for their education includes their school supplies, so what we are ordering is paper, pens, pencils, erasers, American rulers (to study feet and inches in our math lessons, and to be able to measure scales of miles in inches for our geography lessons). We also order our math, English, and geography workbooks from America. We have text books which we check out to the students each year, and we keep those in a cupboard in our room.
In America, students are bringing their own materials, whereas here, we need to supply them. So, if they don’t arrive, we have no paper, pencils, erasers, or workbooks!
There usually is a little left over to buy some supplies like glue, or colored construction paper, sometimes a few extra books (like library books) for the class.
Eileen
December 15, 2008 at 5:21 pm
Emily –
you don’t get any supplies? I know the US education system is supposed to be in the dumps – but how seriously do you mean that you don’t have any supplies? downtown houston?!
cathal – curious in canada
March 30, 2009 at 5:34 am
This is a very serious issue. Classroom materials should on hand way before the school begins. I couldn’t imagine students doing nothing just because materials ain’t coming.