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Wednesday, February 19,2014
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Above: Students sit in McLoughlin 249 during Jackie F low ers' history class. They work
together to present their notes to the class using the new whiteboards available to them.
Bottom right: Flowers walks around to talk to individual groups in M 249. With this new set up Flowers is able to meet
with students before they present in front o f their peers.
In late January students
walked into McLoughlin 249 to
find their long rows of tables and
chairs replaced by new high-tech
furniture built to enhance stu
dent’s time in the classroom.
The newer smaller tables are
built for students to work closer.
While the chairs allow students
to store their items underneath,
they also allow students to swivel
towards whomever is speaking.
The room is also now equipped
with whiteboards on three o f the
four classroom walls.
Yeager has learned that stu
dents are able to keep in more
information as long as it stays
visual to them. With the new
whiteboards teachers are able to
put up notes and move to another
white board within the classroom.
Jackie Flowers, social science
department chair and instructor,
is one of the current instructors
using the new set up. Flowers,
who teaches U.S. History, uses a
lot of group work in her classes,
which the furniture has made a
lot easier for her students. She is
already seeing the difference in
her class, she said.
“I do quite a bit of group
work,” Flowers said. “This has
been wonderful. The chairs are
so versatile for one thing. And the
size of the table really facilitates
discussion.”
Flowers also has students use
white boards that hang on either
side of the table to have students
teach one another throughout the
class.
The new set up now also has
allowed Flowers to move around
the classroom and talk to each
student. She was not easily able
to do that in the previous set up
because students were in such
tight rows.
“It was like they were sitting
in the middle of a movie aisle,”
Flowers said. “This way I can
get around and talk to them while
still hearing the groups behind
me.”
The other big improvement
is that students can see Flowers
wherever she is in the classroom.
The swivel chairs are now allow
ing a student to follow whoever is
speaking in class, furthering their
retention o f information.
“I can see them and they can
see me now,” said Flowers.
Yeager says the current set up
will stay in M 249 and depending
on several factors including the
college’s budget, she sees some
kind of adoption of the active
learning concept in classrooms.
Poll: m ajority
supports $ 9 0
million Aond
Clackamas Community College comisvioned a
phone survey to gauge \otcr support on a possible
bond for the college.
The Nelson Report asked 382 residents in the col
lege’s service'district if they were in favor o f a $90
million bond to improve the facilities for the growing
student population.
These are the results of that survey:
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