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| Interdependent Learning Model (ILM). This model uses instructional games and pupil self-management methods to reach children traditional academic skills and positive sociocultural attitudes and behaviors. Approved by JDRP for grades K-3. This model may also be implemented in grades 4-6. |
Description The Interdependent Learning Model (ILM) is a comprehensive, structured approach to full-day instruction for children in preschool through the sixth grade. In model classrooms children are taught academic skills, positive values, and behaviors. The model's primary goals are to teach children to be independent; to behave interdependently, cooperatively, and responsibly; to have positive self-concepts and positive attitudes toward learning; to be effective communicators; to become skilled at reading, mathematics, writing, and learning how to learn; how to make rational decisions, keep records, schedule their time, and evaluate their work. Children in ILM classrooms learn by doing: through the use of games and play, through curriculum materials, peer teaching, and through the behaviors the teachers model for them. Teachers are trained to establish and maintain the model's classroom management system, which consists of: room arrangement; small-group instruction; pupil self-scheduling, record keeping, and self-evaluation; programmed instruction; curricula based on children's cultures, environments, and communities; and transactional instructional games. The curriculum materials designed for use in ILM classrooms include: Conservation Games, Street/Folk/Musical Games, Table Games, and the Integrated Skills Method Reading Program. Awareness materials are available at no cost. The model's results with children for nearly two decades demonstrates that it is an extremely cost-effective method for achieving the National Goals for Education. Visitors are welcome by appointment for guided classroom visits at the ILM elementary school or preschool demonstration programs in New York City, and at preschool programs in northern New Jersey. Training for administrators, supervisors, teacher trainers, and support staff is available at the University, at adopter sites, and at some current programs.
Developmental Funding: USOE Follow Through.
JDRP No. 77-121 (8/17/77)
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[Leflore County (Mississippi) Follow Through Project]