LRS COMPUTER TECHNIQUES
How We Teach
Computer Skills for Work and HomeWe have 3 goals in our teaching--the same goals you have:
1) Make computer skills easier. 2) Replace four steps with one whenever posssible. 3) Make your skills more powerful. Easier, Stronger Computer Skills for
Your Teacher: patient, easy to understand Our teachers explain things simply and with patience. We make it easy--from simple skills to legal document work. When you need help learning, we will not send "computer experts" who don't know how to talk to people, or who think it's strange to explain something two, three, or ten times. We expect to work with real human beings, who just need someone to make it simple. You've driven a car, held a job, maintained a home, relationships and families. So of course you can handle something as simple as a computer--if someone will just help you do it and explain things simply. We just make things easy. Isn't that the point?. Easier, Better Computer Skills
"Being simple" has worked for us with lawyers, job upgraders, injured workers, students and writers, seniors and retired people. It's the best approach with any skill, from word processing and spreadsheets to speed tricks, Internet skills and new designs for your document, newsletter, or PowerPoint presentation. It can all be easier and simpler.
How fast does the class move? We go at your pace. We don't talk fast while you're still trying to understand a skill. And we don't slow you down when you've learned one level and want to move on to the next one. |
Agency Listings
LRS Computer Techniques is an Eligible Training Provider listed by the California Employment Development Department and Ventura County on CalJobs (www.caljobs.ca.gov). Law Firms and Corporations
Attorneys and legal workers need the easiest ways to produce accurate documents. Easier keyboard and voice commands, along with macros and other speed tricks make MS Word, Wordperfect, Powerpoint and Excel deliver the documents you need--before the messenger arrives. We can make your computer--or your team--more productive with those same shortcuts and the little "surprises" that no one took the time to learn, or to tell you about.
Students, Injured Workers, and More We have trained injured workers and other individuals, in our locations and in theirs, since 1988. LRS has been funded by all major insurance carriers for job skill training. We have also worked with at-home individuals who wish to simply enjoy their computers with Internet, email, working with photographs, and other skills. |
People Who Prefer Private Lessons or A Small Class
LEARNING SLOW TODAY - I want to feel free to ask questions when I don’t get it
In small classes or 1-on-1 sessions, you’re free to ask questions–the questions that go unanswered or unasked in a room where 20 people compete for instructor attention and time. And our instructors encourage questions–we don’t just “put up with” them and act impatient, the way many computer teachers do. We simply don’t hire the impatient “computer experts” who intimidate their students and who clearly don’t like to teach people. We do like it, and we find the way to give the skill to you, with however many explanations you need. That’s how we learned too, and it's what we hope to find in whoever we ask for help–a little patience.
LEARNING FAST TODAY - I don’t want to be held back when other people don’t get it
No speed limits in these classes. If the teacher can focus on just helping you to get it, the class goes at your speed. When the only questions come from you, you get answers faster. Another thing: In 1-on-1 or small class format, you do not only learn the "regular" skills more quickly, but if you’ve learned the whole 3 hour lesson in 2 hours, there’s no reason the instructor can’t show you some extra tricks.
TYPICAL LEARNING - I understood the other stuff but I don’t get this part at all
Most people are a mixture of slow and fast learner. You understand some things right away; other things take a while. And this is the best reason for individual or small class teaching: it’s flexible, slowing down or speeding up at your pace. 1-on-1 training adjusts to how you learn each skill. If one part goes slowly, we stay on that skill until you're confident. And when you get it right away, you move to the next step. The same way you learned everything else.
In small classes or 1-on-1 sessions, you’re free to ask questions–the questions that go unanswered or unasked in a room where 20 people compete for instructor attention and time. And our instructors encourage questions–we don’t just “put up with” them and act impatient, the way many computer teachers do. We simply don’t hire the impatient “computer experts” who intimidate their students and who clearly don’t like to teach people. We do like it, and we find the way to give the skill to you, with however many explanations you need. That’s how we learned too, and it's what we hope to find in whoever we ask for help–a little patience.
LEARNING FAST TODAY - I don’t want to be held back when other people don’t get it
No speed limits in these classes. If the teacher can focus on just helping you to get it, the class goes at your speed. When the only questions come from you, you get answers faster. Another thing: In 1-on-1 or small class format, you do not only learn the "regular" skills more quickly, but if you’ve learned the whole 3 hour lesson in 2 hours, there’s no reason the instructor can’t show you some extra tricks.
TYPICAL LEARNING - I understood the other stuff but I don’t get this part at all
Most people are a mixture of slow and fast learner. You understand some things right away; other things take a while. And this is the best reason for individual or small class teaching: it’s flexible, slowing down or speeding up at your pace. 1-on-1 training adjusts to how you learn each skill. If one part goes slowly, we stay on that skill until you're confident. And when you get it right away, you move to the next step. The same way you learned everything else.