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Learncycle: Responsive Teaching

Learncycle: Responsive Teaching. An intensive teacher-training program developing flexible, effective skills for managing and teaching mainstreamed or high-risk students. Approved by JDRP for teachers of special education or main- streamed students grades K-9, and teacher trainers and consultants.

Description The program includes two levels of training. Learncycle presents a simple problem-solving method to define, analyze, and solve common student problems such as incomplete assignments, distractibility, disruption, isolation, and poor self-image. Participants learn how to assess the key "change factors"for each problem. Through lecture, demonstration, practice, and team task groups, they acquire a wide array of simple, teacher-tested ways to adapt curriculum, consequences, or their own behavior. Each teacher then puts together a short five-step plan to use back in the classroom. What implementation is chosen depends on students' needs and teacher preference. A unique feature is training of teachers in proven ways to enlist the support of a whole class for program success with one or two high-risk students. The overall problem-solving method allows teachers to adapt the program instantly to new situations. Awareness materials are available at no cost. Training is available at the adopter site or for a group of adopters at a common site (costs to be negotiated).

Contact
Effective Teaching Consortium (Etc . . .), P.O. Box 1896, Longmont, CO 80502. (303) 651-1751.

Developmental Funding: USOE ESEA Title III.
JDRP No. 74-53 (5/24/74)


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