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Monday, April 12. 1971
University Daily Kansan
Teaching Methods Different at Broken Arrow School
elementary students study in open classrooms
Education Series
School Offers New Look, Methods
By PAM KUDA
And MIKE HARRIS
Kansan Staff Writers
Many teachers would like to get away from the traditional lecture in a classroom, but it is hard to do because of the large classes, said James W. Hilleshein, professor at Brown University, in a recent interview.
Burn Unit . . .
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fluid. Masters said the burn unit was not unlike an intensive care unit.
Many educational institutions in this country are beginning to experiment with new teaching methods, and in a response to a need for change
Special tanks, tubs and showers and beds that allow the patient to be turned over easily and with minimum discomfort are needed. A person confined to bed for a prolonged period runs up to a severe sores" if he cannot frequently position, he said.
BROKEN ARROW Elementary School, at the west side of west side of town, a conventional school in its physical appearance, its intellectual development.
According to cost estimates, the most expensive piece of equipment required for a Physiological Monitoring Equipment." It is estimated that five sets, costing $20,000 each, could be needed for this one item.
The unit would contain 10 single-bed patient rooms. It is estimated that each room would cost $1,235.00 to furnish when the area reserved for the burn unit has been remodeled. The new unit will be mechanical heating, cooling and ventilation.
Another expensive item, a Hubbard Hydrotherm 1500 heat exchanger for $1,900 in addition, special diagnostic laboratory equipment would cost $3,400.
OTHER SPECIAL equipment needed, the estimate continues, would be a Metabolic Patient Calculator. This scale is used for the critical-accurate weight measurements required to be maintained on burn patients.
Treating burn patients require special training. The training would not be confined to medical students and residents but also other healthcare professionals, physical therapists, social health dietitians, and laboratory technicians. Post-graduate programs would also be offered to doctors, nurses, and allied health providers from community hospitals.
For the last 10 years, Medical Center doctors and other inpatient nurses have the urgent need for a specially designed area in a medical center where burn patients can be given care. In this manner personnel. This unit would enable burn patients to get the minute care and special care that they need.
Eight years ago, the doctors hoped the Medical Center would be selected by the Shriners for a new clinic in the center. The Shriners chose only three sites out of the 166 that were considered and Kansas was not one of them. So the doctors took over the task of getting the project started.
A COMMITTEE to establish a
statewide center for Robinson. Three years ago the administration agreed to give space in the Medical Center for
their students.
the sixth floor of an existing building was selected for development of the acute burn hospital and the hospital patient care area of appropriate size now available in a specialized patient care unit.
The death of Kathryn Kilm, a KU student who died in October from burns, suffered in a Lawrence apartment block, where people aware of the need for a burn unit at the Medical Center.
A letter from Miss Kibm's grandmother, Mrs. Albert Legler, appeared in almost every Kansas newspaper urging contributions to her memorial to the great-grandma Mrs. Legler urged each person who read the article to donate $1 toward the burn unit fund.
SEVERAL GROUPS in the Kansas City area and in Kansas helped and continued to help raise funds for Center's Women's Auxiliary adopted the burn unit as a project center. November and December, Kansas firemen sold fire extinguishers, and profits were
Contributions have come from many sources, including the benefitors, benefactors, industries and promotions, and possibly some others.
Toni Higgins, a Kansas City bank president, contacted Kansas banks at Christmas and received plebs of $1,500.
A Greater University Fund (GUF) special mailing was sent to the university to contribute to the burn unit. GUF officials said response from the university.
MRS. BRUNE, thinks that this system is much more effective than teacher-one class situation although she said it was much easier.
No extra training is needed to teach at Broken Arrow but an annual end-of-year lesson or the beginning of each year to create a philosophy toward this type of teaching. The teachers then teach in the way they find most effective.
Parents and KU student aides help the teachers by grading papers, typing and putting up
The building is circular, with four colonies located around the resource and administration areas in the center. Each colony is designed for about 120 students and is divided into four areas that include more than one grade level called an open classroom situation.
In the first and second grades the classes are more structured because the children need to set up basic Mrs. Brady in the third grade, so the students are allowed to begin progressing at their own rate as much as possible with special teachers to advanced and slow children.
The curriculum is basically the same in a conventional school, these students instructs different levels in his colony during the course of the year.
THE TEACHING methods also differ from the conventional. Mrs. Beverly Bruns, team leader of four grades, said that "no teacher teaches one grade level. They teach four grades. Four teachers teach in each color."
County Clerk Delbert Matha said Friday that the County Commissioners' canvass of the April 6 election showed that Bremner received one vote for her position, and two votes for the school board.
Mathia said that between 50 and 75 persons received write-in votes. The only other write-in candidate who received as many votes was Leonard Harrison, director of the Ballard Center.
bulletin boards. Included in the curriculum are programs dealing with drug abuse and sex education.
A STAFF of 16 men and women teaches the 457 students enrolled in the school that was built three years ago. A gymnasium and a large area in a lower level of the building are also available to the students.
Mrs. Brune said this kind of school was slowly catching on. She said that those persons teaching in this system realized advantages but it would take time to change the present system
The open area classroom was operating effectively and was a step toward trying to change the educational system, Mrs. Brune said.
John B. Bremner, associate
writter, for the Lawrence City Commission and
the Unified School District 497
An action to waive the incident tuition fee of $180 for faculty and staff members' dependents was proposed by the University Council's committee of planning and resources.
As a result of the proposed respondents would pay $4.50 for every student entitled students to use Walkins, the Kansas Union and
in a recent interview, Morris Fainman, chairman of the committee and associate professor of pharmacy, spoke about far-reaching effects on the students if the tuition cut is instituted.
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Fairman said that the committee, which acts as a link from students and faculty to the university, conducts its program and campus planning and resource allocations, thoughtfully considering factors for faculty and staff members.
Acting as such, the cut would attract new faculty to KU and
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possibly help keep present faculty at the University, he said. He added that there possibly could be a custodial and secretarial help and that the fee cut would be a morale builder for the faculty.
Presently, 60 faculty members' dependents attend KU and pay for their housing. 60 Kansas residents. If the 60 students were required to pay only for campus privileges, KU had a loss of $11,000. Faiman said.
"This is a small loss compared to building faculty morale and attracting better faculty members," he said.
Because the cut would be instituted at all six of Kansas' state colleges and universities, the committee would work to Chancellor Laurence E. Chalmers Jr. that approach the other schools about forming a committee of representatives. The committee members will mittee would work out details as
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to the estimated cost of the tuition cut and its effects and also establish standards for eligibility.
determine how faculty members are chosen.
In another action, the committee recommended that the Office of Academic Affairs develop a faculty handbook a general criticism for sabbatical leaves. Because 70 to 75 applications are received for possible openings, Fainan said, criterion must be established to
Falman said the committee realized that it was impossible to get a degree because of the different circumstances of the 1,000 faculty members.
Present specifications for the leaves require that there be plenty of room to a cent of the faculty and that a cent of the work at the University for a year.
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