What is TLC?
Building Success Through Autonomy
Benefits and Goals of the Teaching Learning Continuum
Quick Facts:
- Students can progress at their own pace.
- Curriculum that meets their individual needs.
- Increased motivation toward achievement.
- Greater desire for academic challenges.
- Increased ability for planning and monitoring progress towards a goal.
- Deeper curiosity for further investigations.
- Increased usage of critical reasoning skills, problem-solving strategies, and creative idea generation.
The Four Levels of the TLC Model
Level One: Didactic Instruction
Teacher Guided Instruction
Students will learn...
- Language and Definitions
- New Skills and Processes
- The Ideas and Concepts at the Heart of the Content
Level Two: Facilitated Instruction
Teacher gives more freedom to student to help guide them through the learning process.
Things you will see during this level...
- Individual Student Paced
- Open-ended Tasks
- Problem Solving and Decision Making
- Critical Thinking and Reasoning
- Choice in Content, Process, or Project.
- Simulations
- Problem-Based Learning
Level Three: Coached Instruction
Teacher gives more freedom to student to help guide them through the learning process.
Things you will see during this level...
- Individual Student Paced
- Open-ended Tasks
- Problem Solving and Decision Making
- Critical Thinking and Reasoning
- Choice in Content, Process, or Project.
- Simulations
- Problem-Based Learning
Level Four: Consultative Instruction
Students are now initiators and designers of their own learning. Teachers provide recommendations and advice.
Things you will see during this level of learning...
- Student Initiates the Tasks, Identifies and Solves Problems that Arise, and Faces Challenges Independently.
- Teacher as Counselor and Consultant
- Resources/ Mentors Beyond the Classroom and School
- Innovation, Transformation, Ingenuity
- Self-Awareness, Self-Advocacy, Self-Determination, and Resilience.
Email: Ashley_Serl@chino.k12.ca.us
Website: http://www.chino.k12.ca.us/Domain/11
Location: Chaparral Elementary School, Bird Farm Road, Chino Hills, CA, United States
Phone: (909) 606-4871