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Mulcahy, Dennis – Education Canada, 1993
The Small Schools Curriculum Project in Newfoundland aims to develop curricular and pedagogical solutions to the problems identified with multigrade classrooms. Concludes that multigrade classrooms are (1) a prevalent and permanent feature of education in Newfoundland; (2) a unique form of educational organization; and (3) potentially feasible…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Equal Education, Foreign Countries, Multigraded Classes
Brown, Kenneth G.; Martin, Andrew B. – Education Canada, 1989
Finds that, among 418 students in 8 New Brunswick (Canada) elementary schools, students in multigrade classes and matched peers in single grades 1-5 did not differ significantly in grade points or total achievement test scores. Reports that 27 of 34 teachers surveyed preferred teaching single grade classes. (SV)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Research, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Download full textMiller, Bruce A. – 1988
Small, sometimes multi-cultural, rural schools need specialized preservice teacher education programs to prepare teachers. After outlining the classroom, school, and sociocultural characteristics affecting a teacher's success and survival in a rural community, this paper discusses the apparent lack of rural content in teacher preparation programs…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, Elementary Secondary Education, Hawaiians, Multigraded Classes
Edmonds, E. L. – 1981
In 1973, there were 56 one- and two-room elementary schools in Prince Edward Island (Canada). As part of a descriptive survey of these schools, now closed by consolidation, researchers visited each school in 1973 and recorded details of the buildings, facilities, and school organizations. Teachers from 47 schools and their 737 students in grades…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Consolidated Schools, Educational Facilities, Elementary Education
Stevens, Ken; Mulcahy, Dennis – 1997
The TeleLearning and Rural Education Centre was established in January 1997 at Memorial University of Newfoundland, in one of the most sparsely populated and economically depressed areas of Canada. Of 462 schools in Newfoundland and Labrador, 66 percent are rural and over half have enrollments of under 200 students. The Centre was established to…
Descriptors: Community Schools, Distance Education, Educational Policy, Educational Research
Haughey, Margaret; Murphy, Peter – 1983
Based on research and discussions with rural educators in Australia and New Zealand, a new rural teacher preparation program at the University of Victoria (British Columbia) is intended to sensitize students to the professional life of teachers in small rural communities and to acquaint them with the demands of teaching multi-graded classes. The…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Community Characteristics, Elementary Education, Faculty Mobility
