The Language Arts and Mathematics
Labs are designed to provide all ninth and tenth grade students
with additional instructional time in these key content areas
when they are in their trade/technology cycle. Utilizing
the content areas, students are taught strategies to be able
to become independent and self-motivated learners with a greater
responsibility for their learning process. These learning
skills and strategies are then able to be transferred into all
classrooms, both academic and technology related.
Students receive ¼ credit for each lab, thus a total of ½ credit
a year or 1 credit over the two year period. Labs are graded
and computed into the student’s grade point average. Multiple
types of learning styles are addressed in the labs utilizing
a wide variety of materials in order to best address the needs
of all students.
Language transition support services are provided to English
Language Learners in the labs by continued monitoring of their
language needs and modified as the student’s proficiency in the second
language grows. The Labs represent a coordinated school-wide
approach to improving content literacy following a research based
model from the University of Kansas’ Strategic Instructional
Model.
