TLC - The Learning Center
Praise God! After years of prayer of how Front Range Christian could meet the needs of the whole family, we are opening TLC (The Learning Center) in the fall of 2008 on our K-12 campus. TLC will be able to serve a wide variety of diverse learners, from gifted and talented to students in the NILD (National Institute for Learning Development) program to students who learn best in a self-contained classroom. We have brand new classroom space specifically dedicated for these services! Plus, you can take advantage of the Christian-owned businesses on campus at Pierce Street Village. Call 303.531.4541 for more information.
RESOURCE
Resource services are designed to assist 2nd-12th grade students who need extra or remedial academic help. Students receive small group tutoring once a week. This tutoring occurs during the regular school day and is provided at no additional cost. Students are referred for resource services by their teachers and/or parents.
DISCOVERY PROGRAM
Educational Therapy is a supplementary program established to help students with learning difficulties that have experienced frustration and/or failure in school. The program is used from the National Institute for Learning Disabilities (NILD). Intervention techniques are used in one-on-one educational sessions for approximately three hours per week. The focus of the intense individual sessions is on continual stimulation and development of the deficit areas of perception, basic skills, and cognitive problem solving.
Admittance Requirements:
- Individual educational testing results
- Recommendation from classroom teacher, therapist, principal and parents
- Personal interview with parents and student is required.
- Additional tuition is required
First through sixth grade students with exceptional high ability are clustered together to enable the teachers to better serve these children. Classroom teachers may provide differentiated lessons or assignments.
SEARCH & TEACH
Search & Teach© is an early intervention program developed to meet the educational needs of young learners before they experience the frustration of learning failure. This differs from NILD Educational Therapy®, which was designed to help students who have documented learning difficulties, and in many cases have already experienced frustration and failure in the regular classroom.
SEARCH is a 20-minute individual test designed to identify 5 and 6-year-olds who are vulnerable to learning difficulty, and to provide profiles of individual strengths and weaknesses in the readiness skills necessary for reading success.
TEACH is a program of 55 learning activities called 'tasks,' carefully designed to address the needs revealed by SEARCH. TEACH is generally offered to individuals or very small groups of children with like needs in a center, resource room, or small area within a classroom
SEARCH is the screening component of the program.
• Consists of three tests of visual perception, two auditory tests, two tests of intermodal skills, and three neurodevelopmental tests
• Provides norms for children 64 to 80 months of age, and also for individual demographic groups
• Can be used with individual children, but is most effective and was intended to be used to scan an entire kindergarten or early first grade class
• Can provide a profile of an entire class, benefiting teachers as they plan the scope and sequence of instruction
TEACH is the instructional component of the program, provided during a minimum of three 30-minute sessions per week.
• Consists of remedial tasks ordered from simple to complex, and organized into visual, visual-motor, auditory, body-image, and intermodal skill clusters which correspond to the elements of the SEARCH test.
• Provides, for each of the tasks:
1. a rationale relating the task to reading, writing, and spelling
2. step-by-step teaching instructions
3. well-defined mastery criteria to be applied prior to
progressing the child to a more difficult task
HIGH SCHOOL OPTIONS
Advanced Placement Courses:
High school students may be recommended for enrollment in AP and honors courses offered by the school.
Course of Study Options:
Incoming high school students will be recommended for enrollment in the Standard Track, the College Prep Track or the Honors Track.
