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| Perception+. A prerequisite to any formal learning discipline. Approved for kindergarten (Level I) and first grade (Level II). |
Description Perception+ addresses the student's ability to learn. It is based on the premise that learning can be learned as a skill. Perception is not a reading, writing, or arithmetic program; it prepares students to learn to read, write, and do arithmetic. It is not a remedial program, but it has been used for remediation. It is designed to be introduced at the kindergarten level, but is being used effectively from preschool to junior high, in regular and special education classrooms. Perception + addresses Goal 3 of the National Goals for Education as a prerequisite for young students to demonstrate more competency in learning to read, write, and compute.
Perception+ is perceiving: seeing what is looked at, hearing what is listened to, feeling what is touched. These are fundamental requisites for learning, the foundation for the "basics", and they are attainable through the 15-minute Perception+ lessons, given three times a week throughout the school year. An entire class, not just those identified as having perceptual deficiency, participates as a group. The teacher offers experiences, and the students describe them in their own words. Perception+ is also processing. Unprocessed information is meaningless and irrelevant. In each lesson of the Level I and II instructional units ($80 per level), Perception+ students continually process data. They analyze, relate, compare, judge, sequence, decode. They critique and self-correct. They internalize information through their individual and group interaction with experiences. The teacher functions as the provider of experience and director of the process of internalization, not as an expositor of information. The Perception+ program provides children with the means for making information meaningful. Finally, Perception+ is applying information that has been internalized and can be easily and readily applied.
Developmental Funding: USOE ESEA Title III.
JDRP No. 74-78 (6/7/74)
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