It's hard not to get depressed when you find yourself carrying all of your worldly teaching possessions with you from class to class. You may feel like the school's resident hobo, wandering from room to room in search of a place to stay for the night. It's hard to feel any sort of permanence when you are floating. You will probably only feel like you are holding the place for the real teacher who should be there any day now. I mean the message is that you're not even important enough to merit your own space.

You'd think people would feel the need to be extra nice to you when you are floating, but this is not the case. As a first year teacher you'll probably even encounter some hostile environments that you'll have to teach in. Here are a few things you'll have to overcome, and a few tips you can use in order to make a success out of being a floater:

Bring all of your supplies. You will need to have pencils, pens, and erasers, a stapler with extra staples at the ready, a three hold punch, white out, a ream of plain white paper, paper clips, rubber bands, scissors, chalk or white board markers and erasers, and aspirin!

You'll have a small amount of board space. If you've displaced a teacher from their room they might passively pay you back by hogging up the space on the chalkboard or white board. It's their way of getting back at you for making their life a tad uncomfortable. If they tell you not to erase their board, but they don't give you any space to teach, ignore their request and create the space you need. Be prepared to stick up for yourself if they complain.

You'll get observed. If your host teacher isn't leaving the room during your class, and instead is at their computer, reading a newspaper, or going through their cabinets, it can be distracting. You probably think that they are listening to everything you are saying and quietly judging you, and you're most likely right. There's no way you can ask them to leave directly without sounding like a jerk, so if they won't give you the room to yourself, ask the principal to ask them to be left alone.

Own the room. It might not be your room the whole day, but for that lesson it is. The students expect that you know what your doing and that you be comfortable in the classroom. If a host teacher is not cooperative, you'll need to stand your ground. Don't let them boss you around in a show of territoriality. What happens in that room the rest of the day is their business, what happens in it during your class is yours.

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