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Handicap accessible. There is no way a wheel chair can make it to the third floor where the
professor offices are located. There is little room for storage and classroom growth.
I transfer scheduled classes at the Vo-Tech center to the high school in order to have access to
a computer lab in my classroom.
My class room is in the Turley Center 321a
Since I teach mostly computer type classes, neither the Taylor County Vo-Tech nor the Barbour
County Vo-Tech have overhead projection units which connect with a computer for showing the
class how to use the various software packages. This is a hindrance to helping students see
how to use the software features. Additionally, since this type of equipment is not new
technology and is available at both the Caperton and main campuses, the students are not
getting the quality of instruction that is available elsewhere.
The class room in which I am teaching has tables at which three students sit. There is not
place for extra books for outer ware. When a test is given there is no way to keep students
from looking at each others test because they are on top of each other. I must make up two
different tests. I guess I just do not like the elbow to elbow class rooms.
In general, I do not have any issues with the classrooms in which I teach. The Education 322
classroom is fine, but the desks are spread out across the room so far that I feel like the
students on the 'outskirts' miss out. At times, there are tissues or coffee cups left behind by
the instructor who uses the room before me. Other than that, I have no other comments.
I teach in a library media center with a connecting computer lab. This is my day time
employment environment. It is a more than adequate facility, with the exception of heating and
cooling. Both are turned of at 3:00 in the afternoon, so by the evening class it is either very
cold or very warm. Does not make for a good learning environment.
All of the classrooms I teach in HHH have difficult to read old style chalkboards. Students
sitting 3 or more tables back complain that can not read the boards. In room 402 the dust from
the chalkboard rains down on the rooms dedicated laptop. To have such low tech low quality
classroom materials reflects poorly on the College of Science and Technology.
Type of room was not on your list. The department was not on your list. The classroom does
not have windows. Many points do not fit the questions.
I teach a Chemistry class in this room. The board space is very inadequate for a math/science-
type class.
The computers in 117 JH and 214 Jaynes Hall are obsolete and need replaced immediately. It
takes an eternity just to get logged in, let alone try to use an application.
Hopefully, the new building will solve all of the current issues.
Both of these classrooms are in Turley Center. This was not an option of choices
The chairs/desks in the classrooms are not large enough or comfortable for the adult learners
occupying them.
You need an answer that says NA, because there where quit a few responses that I gave, that I
really should not have commented on.
I put ' poor' for ADA requirements for the room I was in at Caperton, only for the fact that I have
to step up onto the podium. A person in a wheelchair could not do that.
My primary problem with the classroom seating is that there are way too many desks in both
rooms than seems safe or convenient and larger students are simply miserable--only one
alternatively styled desk is available in either. I love the natural light afforded by the big
windows (and wouldn't trade them for quiet), but if there is so much as leaf blower running
outside (or snow blower), students and I must scream at each other to be heard--perhaps this
is more a matter of grounds-keeping than classroom improvement. Most urgently, 304 needs a
thermostat that works--the heartiest students have shivered and perspired through their classes
all term. Finally, a college classroom ought to reflect the importance and dignity of pursuing
higher ed -- it needn't be fancy, but it ought to be clean, orderly, and comfortable. Currently,
rooms in Jaynes tend to look like broken office furniture storage facilities, which just makes me
sad.
Time to get Whiteboards--The last two institutions I taught at in Pennsylvania had these five