Collaboration/ Consultation

The literature describes the importance of programming across varied educational environments to help handicapped students to succeed in mainstream settings. Yet it is often left to the resource teacher to integrate various programs and techniques into a functional working model. This case study of one successful resource program describes eight structures and techniques used across the environments of the regular classroom, playground, lunchroom, and resource room. Over a 4-year period there was a 42% reduction in number of students classified as handicapped even though school enrollment grew by almost 38%. There was also a 58% reduction in the amount of "pull-out-" programming for resource students.