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Download full textVincent, Susan, Ed. – 1999
In multigrade instruction, children of at least a 2-year grade span and diverse ability levels are grouped in a single classroom and share experiences involving intellectual, academic, and social skills. "The Multigrade Classroom" is a seven-book series that provides an overview of current research on multigrade instruction, identifies…
Descriptors: Class Organization, Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques
Peer reviewedPratt, David – Research in Rural Education, 1986
Summarizes evidence from experimental research, ethnology, anthropology, and history about merits of multiage classrooms. Indicates studies show no consistent benefits of age segregation and some affective and social advantages from multiage grouping. Concludes that multiage and multigrade classrooms are socially and psychologically healthy…
Descriptors: Age Grade Placement, Class Organization, Classroom Environment, Elementary Secondary Education
Craig, Cheryl; McLellan, Jim – Education Canada, 1987
Although the single-grade classroom has emerged as the most prevalent administrative arrangement, the existence of the split grade phenomenon continues to be a part of educational tradition in both rural and urban schools, predominantly at the elementary levels. Teachers are then forced to compromise curriculum to teach all levels simultaneously.…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Classroom Environment, Curriculum Problems, Educational Quality
Vincent, Susan, Ed. – 1999
In multigrade instruction, children of at least a 2-year grade span and diverse ability levels are grouped in a single classroom and share experiences involving intellectual, academic, and social skills. "The Multigrade Classroom" is a seven-book series that provides an overview of current research on multigrade instruction, identifies…
Descriptors: Class Organization, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Computer Uses in Education
Vincent, Susan, Ed. – 1999
In multigrade instruction, children of at least a 2-year grade span and diverse ability levels are grouped in a single classroom and share experiences involving intellectual, academic, and social skills. "The Multigrade Classroom" is a seven-book series that provides an overview of current research on multigrade instruction, identifies…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Role, Classroom Environment, Educational Research
Wolfe, Patricia, Ed.; And Others – 1990
In this collection, nine master teachers with extensive experience in small, rural Alaska schools describe classroom management techniques that have proven effective in their multigraded classrooms. Over half the document consists of one paper, the last in the volume, entitled "More like a School Family than Just a Teacher and His or Her…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, Class Organization, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques
Grant, Jim; And Others – 1996
A multiyear, multiage experience, combined with what is known about collaborative learning, learning styles, and multiple intelligences, grouping practices, and the success of inclusion in such a setting, promises to give all children a real opportunity for success in the classroom. Many schools have implemented multiage programs successfully, but…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Elementary Education
Politano, Colleen; Davies, Anne – 1994
As the world becomes more diverse socially, culturally, and economically, there are growing expectations that the individual's differences and rights will be recognized, respected, and responded to in positive ways. This book provides teachers of both multi-age and diverse single-age classrooms guidance on classroom organization, curriculum…
Descriptors: Classroom Design, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Cooperative Learning
Stone, Sandra J. – 1996
School restructuring movements have gained a great deal of national attention. This guidebook addresses the multi-age classroom movement, in which a mixed-age group of children stays with a given teacher for a number of years. The work provides a complete design for the mixed-age primary classroom, from philosophy and rationale to sample lesson…
Descriptors: Classroom Design, Classroom Environment, Continuous Progress Plan, Cross Age Teaching
