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McCarthey, Sarah J.; And Others – Language Arts, 1996
Illustrates the benefits and challenges of team-teaching in a multi-age classroom by describing one school's efforts at implementing language arts instruction within an interdisciplinary approach. Discusses initiating multi-age grouping and the advantages and challenges of multi-age classrooms. Offers recommendations. (SR)
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Educational Change, Elementary Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
Parker, Fred R.; Lumpkins, Bob – 1987
The major underlying concepts used in developing this Collaborative Teaching Program for intermediate grade level students included the heterogeneous grouping of pupils in a community of learners, the use of quality circle management, and the appropriate use of teaching strategies geared toward the major modes of learning. The community of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Heterogeneous Grouping, Intermediate Grades, Multigraded Classes
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Stuart, Shannon K.; Connor, Mary; Cady, Karin; Zweifel, Alicia – International Journal of Whole Schooling, 2007
This article describes a multiage classroom led by three co-teachers who facilitate the education of 42 students ages six through nine years. The classroom is located in a public school district that practices inclusion and subscribes to the principles of whole schooling. A literature review defines the concepts of co-teaching, multiage education,…
Descriptors: Multigraded Classes, Mixed Age Grouping, Teaching Methods, Inclusive Schools
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Udvari-Solner, Alice – Remedial and Special Education, 1996
This description of a curricular adaptation decision-making process focuses on tenets of reflective practice as teachers design instruction for students in heterogeneous classrooms. A case example illustrates how an elementary teaching team transformed lessons to accommodate a wide range of learners in a multiage first- and second-grade classroom.…
Descriptors: Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Case Studies, Curriculum Development, Decision Making
Doud, James L.; Finkelstein, Judith M. – Principal, 1985
Notes the increasing availability of prekindergarten programs for four-year-olds and describes a program that groups four- and five-year-olds together. Covers the program's instructional goals; reasons for using multi-aged grouping, cooperative teaching, and structured planning time; curriculum; interaction with parents; and dependence on the…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Age Grade Placement, Educational Change, Educational Objectives
Miletta, Maureen McCann – 1996
In this book, an experienced elementary school teacher recounts how she and three other teachers of grades 4, 5, and 6 decided to relax the compartmentalization of learning into subject areas and shuffle subject matter into new patterns to offer students a voice in their education. The book describes how the teachers created a multiage…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Creative Teaching, Educational Change, Educational Objectives