Download or read book The Multiage Evaluation Book written by Char Forsten and published by Staff Development for Educator. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multiage is an instructional design whereby students from two or more grades are blended together into a learning community that progresses with the same teacher(s) for two or more years. This book was designed to help teachers and administrators explore, implement, and evaluate their multiage program. The book is presented in four parts. The first three parts share a consistent format and include a series of checklists and charts for participating educators to complete. Part 1, "Exploring the Multiage Classroom," examines the multiage classroom, reasons for its implementation, and the kinds of instructional practices commonly associated with it. Part 2, "Implementing the Multiage Classroom," presents the steps involved in planning the instructional design associated with a multiage classroom. Part 3, "Evaluating the Multiage Classroom," provides assistance in establishing an evaluation process for the multiage instructional design, clarifying the elements to be evaluated and how the results should be used, shared, and reported. Part 4, "Support Pages," contains reproducible forms and sample letters, questionnaires, and surveys, ready for revision or immediate use. The final section also provides recommended resources for further information. (KB)
Download or read book Creating the Multiage Classroom written by Sandra Stone and published by Good Year Books. This book was released on 2004-07 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From philosophy and rationale to sample lesson plans and evaluation forms, this complete design for the mixed-age primary classroom provides practical answers to teachers', administrators', and parents' questions about planning, implementation, environment, curriculum, management, assessment, and evaluation. Reproducible forms and assessment tools ease use. Grades K-6. Index. Bibliography. Illustrated. Good Year Books. 277 pages.
Download or read book Assessment and Evaluation in the Multiage Classroom written by Joan Gaustad and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses authentic assessment approaches for evaluating students in the multiage context.
Download or read book Exploring the Multiage Classroom written by Anne A. Bingham and published by Stenhouse Publishers. This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you are planning to move into multiage or have already made that transition from a conventional classroom, you will welcome the honest, practical advice that makes Exploring the Multiage Classroom a genuine handbook -comprehensive, realistic, and accessible. You will see what teachers find rewarding in multiage teaching and why it works so well for children who can learn from the models provided by the literacy and learning of other children around them. You will discover:Ideas for working with the entire class on a topic while guiding and accepting a variety of responses determined by the ability and developmental level of each child.Ways children can work effectively on an individual level, with partners, in small groups,and as a whole class.Suggestions for adapting all subject areas in your curriculum to a multiage setting.Chapters on integrated themes, oral language, student choice, literacy, math, assessment, moving into a multiage organization, and teaming.Contributions from other multiage teachers that give a picture of different ways of adapting school programs to include two to four grade spans.Appendixes that include a classroom materials list, sample schedules, and room layouts, and bibliographies of professional resources and children's books.Grounded in the relevant philosophy, research, and theory, Exploring the Multiage Classroom is a treasury of ideas derived from Anne Bingham's wide classroom experience. Using the models she provides, you will understand how to create a classroom that celebrates diversity, continuity, and community-all characteristic of multiage education.
Download or read book Understanding Multiage Education written by Sandra J. Stone and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting a compelling case for changing our system of education from a graded, curriculum-centered approach to a multiage, child-centered approach, Understanding Multiage Education is a comprehensive exploration of the philosophy and foundations of multiage education. Veteran educators Stone and Burriss examine the "why" of multiage education, exploring how multiage classrooms' structure, environment, strategies, and assessments unfold and complement the multiage philosophy and pedagogy. Delineating the differences between a standard and a mixed-age approach, each chapter features Inside Insights, short vignettes, case studies, examples of multiage in practice and discussion questions challenging readers to engage with the core concepts and examine how we might define success in a multiage classroom. Designed for graduate-level students of early childhood, elementary, and general education courses, as well as experienced practitioners, this is an essential guide for anyone interested in understanding the rationale, implementation, and benefits of multiage education.
Download or read book The Multi age Learning Community in Action written by Barbara Cozza and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-09-18 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As schools struggle to teach all students, the multi-age teaching and learning framework has emerged as one of today’s most effective ways to structure schools. Multi-age Learning Community (MAC) Program is a professional development program in action. It presents a framework that can transform schools from a graded system to a multi-age learning environment. This multi-age school targets students’ individual and personal needs and allows students to excel and succeed. The school reform climate today focuses on schools of choice and building effective school environments. This multi-age program creates a unique school niche that is marketable to families. Parents have the option of sending their children to schools that concentrate on achievement that best meets the needs of the learner without disrupting the mandates of the curricula. This book is intended to assist educators at all levels of all school organizations, as well as give policymakers, educators and parents the information on an effective school program. This book gives information on how to transform schools into multi-age classrooms. This book is divided into four parts that explain both the theory and the practice of effective strategies for the multi-age school program: Organizational Practice, Building Culture, Learning Processes, and Assessment and Systemic Improvement. There are specific basic principles and practices that are integrated into a quality and effective framework discussed in the chapters of this book. Each chapter begins with a vignette based on my experiences in multiage schools and concludes with an educator’s reflection to recap the concepts in the chapter. Each chapter also integrates snapshots that areshort real-to-life passages that bring to life concepts discussed in the chapter. Although this book discusses multi-age schools, these ideas may be applied to all school environments. To accommodate all school programs, at the end of each chapter, a section titled Application for All Schools is a framework that discusses just how to apply chapter concepts in any school or classroom program. It is recommended that the reader review the book one time in sequence and then reread each chapter as needed, to give meaning to the reader’s purpose.
Download or read book Multi age and More written by Colleen Politano and published by Portage & Main Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multi-Age and More, the second book in the Building Connections series, is designed to provide practical stragegies, innovative ideas, and adaptable examples for holistic teaching in elementary classrooms. Every classroom is a "multi-age" classroom: even same-age students have varied skills, abilities, and interests. Multi-Age and More is for all teachers of single-age and multi-age classes who are looking for ways to meet the challenges of learners and their diverse learning needs. This book provides teachers with criteria, organizers, and practical strategies for managing and teaching any multi-age, multi-ability, and multi-interest class. The book includes over 85 ideas to help you: plan, organize, and modify the curriculum get students to represent their thinking and show you what they know design instruction to meet the needs of your students make assessment and evaluation an integral part of your students' learning and your teaching use available physical space, materials, and supplies effectively work with parents, colleagues, and school educators
Download or read book The Multiage Classroom written by Robin Fogarty and published by Illinois Renewal Inst Incorporated. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noting that the recent call for holistic models of schooling dictates a thorough investigation of more natural groupings of students, this collection of articles reviews available literature on multiage, nongraded, continuous progress classrooms. Divided into six sections, the chapters explore the overriding concerns and the pros and cons of such instruction, delineate the procedures and practices associated with multiage instruction, illustrate actual classroom practice, and examine issues of evaluation and accountability in such classrooms. The chapters are: (1) "The First 30 Years Were the Fairest" (Connell), tracing the history of schooling from Sputnik to the late 1980s; (2) "The Dual-Age Classroom: Questions and Answers" (Woelfel); (3) "The Return of the Nongraded Classroom" (Anderson); (4) "The Pros and Cons of Mixed-Age Grouping (Lodish); (5) "On the Merits of Multiage Classrooms" (Pratt); (6) "A Study of Multi-Age or Family-Grouped Classrooms" (Milburn); (7) "The Benefits of Nongraded Schools" (Pavan); (8) "The Nongraded Elementary School: Great Potential, but Keep It Simple" (Slavin); (9) "Nongradedness: Not Simply a Grouping Scheme" (Pavan); (10) "A Look at Multi-Age Classrooms" (Cohen); (11) "Grouping Students and Helpful Suggestions for Combination Classrooms" (DelForge and others); (12) "The Nongraded Classroom in Practice" (Gaustad); (13) "Teaching and Learning in the Multigrade Classroom: Student Performance and Instructional Routines" (Miller); (14) "High Expectations for Multi-Age Classrooms," a reprint of five papers by Anderson, Fogarty, Rae, Chapman and Schrenko, and Schrenko; (15) "A K/1 Class Can Work--Wonderfully!" (Nachbar); (16) "A Nongraded, Multi-Aged Program That Works" (Oberlander); (17) "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Combination Class" (Freeman); (18) "The Integrated Technology Classroom: An Experiment in Restructuring Elementary School Instruction" (Held and others); (19) "Student Achievement in Multigrade and Single Grade Classes" (Brown and Martin); (20) "The Consensus Classroom" (Sartor), on student decision making in the classroom; (21) "Kidwatching: Observing Children in the Classroom" (Goodman); (22) "What Is a Portfolio?" (Burke); and (27) "How Do We Know We're Getting Better?" (Jeroski and Brownlie). (HTH)
Download or read book The Evaluation of Multi age Students written by Jeanne King and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Best Practice written by Christine R. Lowry and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study sought to determine: What are successful strategies for implementing authentic assessment within multiage classrooms? Research data was collected by interviewing and observing five multiage teachers, reviewing several assessment documents, and examining available literature. Through qualitative analysis I was able to extract common elements from my data. From the many components that contribute to the successful implementation of authentic assessment in a multiage setting I isolated three major themes: communication, documentation, and balance. Therefore, teachers should consider these themes as they implement authentic assessment techniques in their own multiage classrooms.
Download or read book Creating the Multiage Classroom written by Sandra Stone and published by Good Year Books. This book was released on 2004-07 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From philosophy and rationale to sample lesson plans and evaluation forms, this complete design for the mixed-age primary classroom provides practical answers to teachers', administrators', and parents' questions about planning, implementation, environment, curriculum, management, assessment, and evaluation. Reproducible forms and assessment tools ease use. Grades K-6. Index. Bibliography. Illustrated. Good Year Books. 277 pages.
Download or read book Learning Together written by Nancy Bacharach and published by Corwin. This book was released on 1995-08-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a complete guide to the multiage grouping of students. Learning Together discusses the theory behind and practice of multiage classrooms, and explores its curricular, instructional and assessment elements. The book incorporates case studies of four schools which have implemented a multiage configuration.
Download or read book Teaching and Learning in the Intermediate Multiage Classroom written by Alice Leeds and published by R&L Education. This book was released on 2002-06-11 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teaching and Learning in the Intermediate Multiage Classroom describes in practical detail a creative and effective teaching practice in multiage elementary classrooms, one that integrates challenging academics with personalized teaching and learning. Written by David Marshak, an educator who has studied multiage classrooms for over 12 years, and Alice Leeds, who has taught in multiage classrooms for over a decade, this book describes methods for teaching in this type of environment that provide a better form of education than the conventional age-graded classroom. Leeds and Marshak examine the benefits of multiage classrooms by exploring how such classrooms function and provide a detailed description of an individual unit designed to maximize the potential of this non-traditional form of intermediate education. By describing the benefits multiage classrooms provide in terms of personal, social, and academic achievement, plus outlining a process for teachers to become successful in this environment, this book is bound to interest administrators, teachers, and researchers in education.
Download or read book Multi age and More written by Colleen Politano and published by Portage & Main Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multi-Age and More, the second book in the Building Connections series, is designed to provide practical stragegies, innovative ideas, and adaptable examples for holistic teaching in elementary classrooms. Every classroom is a "multi-age" classroom: even same-age students have varied skills, abilities, and interests. Multi-Age and More is for all teachers of single-age and multi-age classes who are looking for ways to meet the challenges of learners and their diverse learning needs. This book provides teachers with criteria, organizers, and practical strategies for managing and teaching any multi-age, multi-ability, and multi-interest class. The book includes over 85 ideas to help you: plan, organize, and modify the curriculum get students to represent their thinking and show you what they know design instruction to meet the needs of your students make assessment and evaluation an integral part of your students' learning and your teaching use available physical space, materials, and supplies effectively work with parents, colleagues, and school educators
Download or read book The Multiage Classroom written by Sandra J. Stone and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Creating the Multi age Classroom written by and published by Cats Publications. This book was released on 1995 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Assessment and Evaluation in the Multiage Classroom written by Joan Gaustad and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses authentic assessment approaches for evaluating students in the multiage context.