Just imagine a Classroom at the beginning of every new school year where:

 

• at least two thirds of the class knows the teacher’s expectations from the previous year and the teacher knows at least two thirds of the class on an individual and personal basis.

• the new class members have many ‘teachers’ to induct them into the workings and expectations of their new classroom.

• the parents of at least two thirds of the class know the ethos and workings of their child’s classroom and their teacher’s expectations.

• the emphasis on happiness and security is equal to the emphasis on high academic performance and achievement.

• learning to learn is equated with the principles of continuity of learning.

• Copycats and Stickybeaks are recognised as the true learning traits of the Scallywags.

• discipline problems are not blockages to high level learning and achievement.

• the children are breaking their necks to get to school and into their classroom for the excitement of their learning journey, every day.

• the children join their classroom as Followers, soon becoming Learners and end up as Leaders.  All children in such classrooms Flourish.

 

                     Just imagine that!!! 

                           What sort of classroom might that be?

                                 It is a non-graded classroom, a Multiage Classroom and                                         it operates on a thousand day continuous cycle of                                                      learning, often with a team of teachers who support                                                     each other and learn to teach together.

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“There’s a glass and a half of learning in every glassful of Multiage classroom learning.” 

         

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All of the classroom strategies that ensure your success as a Multiage Teacher.  They are also valid for "All teachers who have a pupil in the middle of their eye!"

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The  strategies will ensure your success as any 'child focussed teacher', not only as a Multiage Teacher.  You might like to add to the list.  

 

Learning in a Multiage Classroom is as much the responsibility of the learner as it is of the teacher.  Every day every child is made aware of that mighty truth.  "Learning to learn" is their mantra.

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   The Multiage Classroom  Strategies.

       They are also great for any classroom where "learning to learn" is important.

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Ooze in to learning every day

 

The Invitations Noticeboard

Accelerators and Inhibitors

Learning Menus

End of term Kid Tracking Envelopes

The Education Digestion (Cow Gut) Model

One book/One folder policy

Clinics for needs based understanding, explicit instruction

Steep Ladder Syndrome

Accountability and Homework Policy

Parent Liaison Persons (PLPs)

Great Literature every day, (read by the teacher)

Nine day teaching fortnights

Start weeks on Wednesdays

An Excursion every term

Playtime after 2.00pm

Class or School Concert every semester

Class Camp every semester

Eat lunches with the class (even cook it!) 

A Mini School Structure