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    Teaching Multi-Grade Classes: Topic 4. Multi-Grade, Multi-Age, and Multi-Level Classrooms What Is Multigrade Teaching?

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    TEACHING MULTI-GRADE CLASSES

    Topic 4. Multi-grade, Multi-age, and Multi-level Classrooms

    What is Multigrade teaching?

    ✓ A Multigrade class is made up of students in several (two or three) grade levels


    with one teacher for an entire school year.
    ✓ Multigrade schools are those which have classes that combine students of
    different ages and different abilities in one classroom.
    ✓ A Multigrade class involves students of different ages and developmental
    levels, with different skills and learning abilities learning together with one teacher.
    ✓ Multigrade should remain as a class for a minimum of two (2) years but often
    for three (3) years. They should have the same classroom teacher for all those years.

    What is the difference between Multigrade, Multiage and Multilevel/Composite


    groups?

    Multigrade we have already defined as a class of more than one grade level taught by
    the same teacher in the same room, but it is the way that the students are taught and the
    organization of the teaching program that differs.

    Multilevel/Composite classes are two or more classes working in the same room with
    one teacher, but usually with separate programs. For example, the Grade 4 will be following the
    syllabus for their grade, and the Grade 5 likewise. The curriculum is still structured and taught
    strictly in separate grades. This sort of teaching is syllabus driven; the teacher sticking rigidly to
    the curriculum for that level.

    Multi-age.

    There can be a wide range of ages in anyone class, varying by quite a number of years
    sometimes. In the traditional class, all students in the class will be working on the grade
    curriculum, despite their age differences. In this sense, the teaching is also syllabus driven, as
    there is no special consideration for the differences in age or ability.

    Multigrade teaching is different in two main ways: (1) The curriculum for the grades
    being combined is integrated, that is, common elements from the different year programs are
    combined into one program for the class. There is not two or three separate programs
    operating, just one that provides different levels of challenge to the students (2) The learning is
    student centered, not grade level centered, so students have the opportunity to work at their
    level of ability, through the different levels of activities provided by the teacher. The needs of
    the student determine the teaching and learning; learning is student driven.

    What Multigrade is Not

    · Multigrade is not one teacher running between two classrooms to teach two separate
    grades with separate programs.
    · Multigrade is not two classes working in isolation in the same room, seated at each end
    of the classroom and being taught separate programs by one teacher.

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