Multi-grade teaching

Practical strategies to promote learning and teaching in the multi-grade classroom

Overview

Strategies to support teaching and learning in the multi-grade classroom Tutors input Participants input

Overview of workshop

Individual Teacher Planning

- curricular objectives

Timetabling - samples Promoting the Independent Learner linked strategies

By the end of the workshop

What? A possible whole school practice in the planning of English Why? To improve our teaching and learning How? CD-ROM: related planning resources

Individual Teacher Planning

Ensuring that the objectives of the Primary School Curriculum are at the centre of all learning in the multigrade class

Considerations

Awareness of the objective? Over-reliance on the use of textbooks to address the objectives? Curricular documents perceived not to be multi-grade friendly?

Objectives user-friendly for the MGC

English Curricular Objectives

English

Objectives in the context of multi grade Link with appropriate methodologies

If children cannot learn the way we

teach, then we must teach the way they learn.

English

Whole School Plan - Agreed approaches Long-term plan - English Short-term planning: Templates

Timetabling

Sample timetables
Time allocation for every curricular area per week

An alternative approach
A timetable in terms of how things are best learned

Independent Learner
The curriculum aims to ensure that the childrens experience of school will be such that they will come to value learning and will develop the ability to learn independently.
Primary School Curriculum (1999 p. 10)

WSE (two teacher school)

Pupils with learning difficulties need closer monitoring and work needs to be assigned which is appropriate and allows them work more independently as they moved through the classes.

Practical strategies to develop the independent learner

Planning for implementation Focus on the English Curriculum

Linkage Integration Differentiation

Promoting the independent learner through

Oral Language

Language Experience Charts- across the curriculum Visual Arts - Looking & Responding Maths- Problem Solving

Promoting the independent learner through

Reading

Extra Reading- USSR, DEAR Reading Buddies

Promoting the independent learner through Writing

Writing Process My Writing

Buddy

CD-ROM contents
Folder 1: Individual Teacher Planning

English Multi-grade Objectives Sample Long-term English Plan Sample Short-term Templates Organisational Considerations to support Learning General Information Small Schools

CD-ROM contents
Folder 2: Timetabling

Multi-grade Samples

Folder 3: The Independent Learner

Oral Language Reading Writing

Workshop
Discuss the ideas you have just heard.

Agree on 2-3 of these ideas which you feel you would definitely implement in your school

Suggest 2-3 other ideas which you have found useful.

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