Lincoln High School - Links Yearbook (Lincoln, NE)

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Newest department InsrruCTional Resources is o deportment which serves around 140 students with special needs, including stu- dents in the gifted program and English as a Second Language The deportment consists of nine full-time and two part-time staff members, although some of these teachers also reach in other departments Robert Buckner is the deportment choirmon The mom purpose of the deportment is to give students extra help in areas where they are weak, such as reading or math. This year sow the Developmental Learning FVogram (DLP), the Learning Disability FVogrom (LDP), and other special programs combined under one heading. Instruc- tional Resources. The purpose of this was to provide the students in these programs with the benefits of the Instruc- tional Resources FVogram. The real strength of the program, according to Instructional Resources Teacher Marv Rader, is the close association between individual student and the instructor The students have someone rhor they con relate to, someone rhor they can rake their problems to, even if those problems oren t school related The program also provides on academically relaxed working environ- ment, without the pressures often found in the normal classroom setting. Efforts are also made to mainstream' Instructional Resources students into other programs and into srandord classes. Another goal of the deportment is securing successful employment for the students. The Work-Study FVogram provides job candidates with the experience rhor they will need to obtain jobs. Marti Instructor Harvey Sroner Is in charge of rhe gifted program Above: Mr Roder helps Ram Rosecrans with o morh problem Below: If Hoong Ho con nome three Beetles members she will win o T-shirt ond o six-pock of Mountain Dew Teny Copetand reods o short story Acodemics—139

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Experience gained Have rhe Driver Education instructors ever been in on occident with o student driver? Sure, answered Mr, Max Lien, all three of us hove. When trying to recoil injuries resulting from these Occidents, rhe worst he could remember was o finger slommed in o cor door by o nervous student. Mr. Lien. Mr. Don Luedke. ond Mr. Richard Terry ore rhe three brave men that take new drivers ond turn them into experienced motorists. Each instructor has gone through more than 30 hours of special training in order to reoch this doss. Along with rhe actual driving, they use simulators when reaching Driver Education dosses. The simulators ore used to develop rhe perceptive skills ond mental tasks needed when driving. The cors used by this deportment ore leased from various dealers in Lincoln. New cors ore received or least once o year. Doyle Jones won t be enticed into rhe pool PE altered The Physical Education Deportment has gone through several srrucrural changes in rhe lost few years. Before rhe changes were mode o student could pick any two gym dosses to fulfill the graduation requirements. Now rhe Physical Educotion dosses ore divided into four groups. A student still has to take two gym dosses, bur rhe dosses must be from different groupings. The dosses ore divided into groups of ream sports ond fitness activities, individual ond dual sports, recrea- tional activities, ond aquatics. The new graduation requirements were rhe couse of this change. Students ore now required to participate in o variety of sports, developing skills needed in individual os well os ream sports. Two of rhe most populor gym dosses this year were Self-Defense ond Body Conditioning. Self-Defense was o new doss this year, while Body Conditioning has been offered or LHS for several yeors Body Conditioning was previously thought of os o doss for mole body builders. But in recent yeors more girls hove been taking rhe doss because they hove found that it is o good way to keep in shape. In rhe Self-Defense doss, students learned to defend themselves with basic korore moves. Rich Miller prepares ro rake a drive 138—Academics

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Penny Losley braces herself for impocr while Lon hep sronds reody to assist Above: Jock Densberger displays arborneogillry Below: Sophomore quorterbods Lonce McCord unleashes the boll or The lost moment Competition plus In an era of physical firness, with rhe popularity of health foods and firness spos growing continuously, high school athletics ploy on important educational role for various reasons. School athletic programs ore designed to encourage firness. Those who oren r immensely interested in sports and hove always wondered why cerTom credit hours of gym ore required, should give rhe subject some extra thought. Doth P.E. classes and the tedious training and practice involved in inrerscholasric competition emphosize and develop good physical fitness habits. These habits promote good health ond will be retained oil through life Athletics ore port of yet another type of education— social education. One s view of athletics should nor be based only on how many types of sport shoes con be found or rhe local sporting goods shop, or on rhe successfulness of rhe football or basketball season (which for some depends only on rhe number of thrills of victory os compared to the agonies of defeat experienced). After oil. those athletes ore learning through their training ond competition Competition is nor only a matter of winning or losing, but how one ploys rhe gome. Self-discipline, teamwork, ond sportsmonship ore rhe most important lessons that on athlete con leorn through involvement. One does nor always gain this education sifting in o classroom, bur through inter action with other people. Bur there must be something present in one's personality that produces o desire to participate For o competitive spirit, athletics is o perfect area of self-expression. As on athlete participates in o sports program, he develops on understand- ing of himself. 140—Athletics