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Teacher Training and Transitions in Rural Indonesian Schools: A Case Study of Bogor, West Java
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Luschei, Thomas F.; Zubaidah, Ida – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2012
As one of the world's largest and most diverse countries, Indonesia faces an enormous challenge as it seeks to upgrade the skills and knowledge of its widespread primary teacher workforce. This challenge is even more acute in remote rural areas, where practising teachers require specialized training to work in classrooms with children of different…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Educational Opportunities, Teaching Methods, Rural Areas
Constraints To Implementing Educational Innovations: The Case of Multigrade Schools.
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Benveniste, Luis A.; McEwan, Patrick J. – International Review of Education/Internationale Zeitschrift fuer Erziehungswissenschaft/Revue Internationale de l'Education, 2000
Analyzes conditions under which implementation of multi-grade schools might be successful, focusing on the Colombian Escuela Nuela programme. Concludes that capacity building through in-service training is an important determinant of the way teachers approach their task. Suggests that teacher motivation and commitment might explain much of the…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Educational Strategies, Inservice Teacher Education, Multigraded Classes
Multigrade Schools: Improving Access in Rural Africa? Fundamentals of Educational Planning 76
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Brunswic, Etienne; Valerien, Jean – International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) UNESCO, 2004
This study is concerned with the organization of education in rural areas and the advantages of a strategy based on multigrade classes, i.e. classes having a single teacher but pupils of several grade levels studying different curricula. This strategy made a substantial contribution to the achievement of universal primary education at reasonable…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Education, Learning Modules, Educational Quality
Strategies pedagogiques dans les classes a niveaux multiples du nord de l'Ontario--Un compte rendu (Teaching Strategies for Multigraded Classes in Northern Ontario: An Account).
Lataille-Demore, Diane – Education Canada, 2003
A training and teaching tools development project aims to help multigrade classroom teachers in remote areas of Ontario. The project presents multiple instructional strategies, such as collaborative learning, differentiated teaching, and subject integration. Sixty teaching activities, created and tested by teachers, are contained on a CD that will…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Foreign Countries, Geographic Isolation, Material Development
Making Sense of Multiage: Socio-Emotional Benefits and Instructional Strategies. Developmentally Appropriate Practice.
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Williams, Jennifer L.; Strangis, Diane E. – Journal of Early Education and Family Review, 2002
Examines the social and emotional benefits for children in early childhood multiage classrooms and the strategies teachers implement to promote those developmental domains. Explores findings about the social and emotional advantages for students, and presents advantages and disadvantages from the multiage perspective. Reviews findings on…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Constructivism (Learning), Cooperative Learning, Early Childhood Education
Multi-Age Classrooms: Families and Flexibility.
Elliot, Ian – Teaching Pre K-8, 1997
Discusses the organization and operation of multi-age classrooms in an elementary school in Nevada. Describes how teachers working with primary classrooms of first and second graders, and intermediate classrooms of third, fourth, and fifth graders, created an adaptive, flexible, and dynamic curriculum that could serve the needs of their…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Design, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques