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Scenario A: Chandra Phillips' Elementary Art Class
- Early Friday morning, Chandra Phillips trudged up the stairs to her elementary art classroom in the oldest part of the school. This dark room had been the art room for years and was located in a very warm area of the school without any cross ventilation. Chandra hurried over to open the windows before the students arrived in hopes of a cool breeze. With 30 small bodies in a class, it didn’t take long to overheat the room during warm weather.
- Even though it was the art room, Chandra only had one bulletin board to display her students’ art work. She could only put up a few projects from each class at a time and she noticed that it was time for her to change the bulletin board again.
- Chandra sighed and realized that her first class was lined up downstairs waiting to come up. She could hear one of the students yelling at a classmate to stop pushing. She hurried to the doorway and told the students to come on up and take their seats.
- As the students were filling the desks, Chandra began to pull supplies off of the shelves. The students complained that they couldn’t get to their desks because she was in their way! She told them that they would just have to wait.
- Chandra had arranged the desks in a circle so she could stand in the middle and demonstrate the steps of the different projects. Someone was always complaining that they couldn’t see what she was doing as she would try to turn around and face everyone at some time during the demonstration. With her older students, she would write the steps on the chalkboard for them to follow. Students in the desks in front of the chalkboard often knocked their supplies on to the floor as they would turn around in their desks trying to read the board. Classes always seemed noisy and chaotic no matter what she tried.
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