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McIntyre, Ellen; Kyle, Diane – Center for Research on Education, Diversity & Excellence, 2002
In nongraded, multi-age classrooms, children have the opportunity to learn a great deal from their more proficient classmates. Children in multi-age, nongraded programs often learn that children differ, and they learn to assist each other in productive ways. The organizational scheme has the potential to remove much of the competition of…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Urban Schools, Poverty, Social Development
District of Columbia Public Schools, Washington, DC. Div. of Research, Planning and Evaluation. – 1981
The purpose of the Meeting Students' Needs in the Multiage Group Environment (MSN) program was to provide an instructional system to meet the needs of elementary school students of differing achievement, age, and grade level who are in the same classroom. The program, for kindergarten through grade six, was characterized by an innovative…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Competency Based Education
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