Teacher coming into my room every day

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I have a lesson in here after her, and she's free whilst I do my lesson. Every day without fail she comes into my room during the lesson to rummage for some papers or something. She leaves hers all over the place and I refuse to keep tidying them up, but it looks bad for my classes.
It's a bit annoying that she has to keep disturbing the lesson. She just walks in and doesn't even ask.

Casually in the staff room: “Hi Teacher, would you mind not popping into my lesson quite so often? I’m finding it really distracting.”
Done 😁

YANBU. I'd find that really irritating. I mean... if it were very occasionally, fine. But not all the time - I'd be beginning to wonder if she were doing it on purpose for some reason!

You speak to her BEFORE your class...
"Is there anything you need to collect from the room.. rather than interrupt my class ...yet again."

And smile.....

Dump all her papers and other shit that are in your way in a box . Put it outside the door. Or just inside the door if you are feeling kind.

I think I would stop what I was doing, look pointedly at her, and say 'can I help you?' To make it really obvious that she is disturbing you.

I cured a former colleague of this by stopping absolutely when he came in, and waiting while he retrieved whatever it was; luckily, it was a class I could do this with. It took a bit of nerve, as he was head of the Junior Department. He tried breezily saying "Oh do carry on!" but we waited patiently, the only sound in the room being the ticking clock; actually, I think the boys rather enjoyed the game.

Tell the children that you have a new rule. When a teacher enters the room during a lesson, they must all chant Good afternoon Miss …., put their chairs under, fold their arms and stand stand in silence until she has gone.

When I was at school in the early 90s our deputy head had a habit of coming into our English lesson every week, our lovely English teacher was not impressed, she started asking pointed questions, “why are you here? What can I help you with?” But he kept coming, so she had us helping to make his trips uncomfortable, she started by having us not make eye contact, then put our heads on the desk, and finally had us all (we were year 7) sit on the floor until he left, he lost it, but did stop coming.

So, so many schools don’t have staff rooms.

So rather than her tackling him privately and sorting out the problem either herself or through other professional channels, she engaged with the children to undermine not just another teacher but the deputy head?

Just stop what you're doing and all sit in silence

Ugh, I had this. She didn't want me to be in her room. I didn't want to be in her room. It was in the wrong building and you can't do a science practical in an English room. Out of our hands though. In the end we did the same as twoshedsjackson, and waited...

I did try a conversation first. She made it clear that she did not consider my request reasonable.

I have always worked in departments where people come in and out of my classroom, shared resources, got on with something at back etc. I have also frequently done team teaching and I have usually had technicians, TAs or student teachers in my classes. I really like having other adults in my classroom as it makes the job much more fun. I do realise it doesn’t suit everyone though and if you had judgemental colleagues it would be awful.

So many silly ideas of dragging the children into this nonsense.

How about "Hey, would you mind not coming in every week? It distracts everyone" Although I dont think its a big deal at all, tbf.

In my last school, I was always that person! I don't know what your school is like but we had one general staff room, no department staff room and only one small locker each to store all our stuff. So I had to leave everything in my classroom as I had nowhere else to put it. When someone else was teaching in my classroom and I was on a free period doing my planning in the staff room, I often realised I'd left a book or something else I needed and had to discreetly pop in and get it.

It's really hard to plan ahead and make sure you have everything you need when you're moving around all day and don't have any private space to keep anything. I'd give your colleague a break and just ignore her when she comes in. I'm sure she's not doing it maliciously or to spy on you!

We always had an open door policy and we wouldn't think twice of popping in and out of each other's lessons. We had nothing to hide, and our kids could cope with another teacher popping in to grad x,y or z.

But each to their own..,

Grab that should say

I imagine she did try. He was a complete arse. Different times though, you couldn’t behave like that in a school today!