Exploring the Multiage Classroom - Softcover

Bingham, Anne A.

9781571100139: Exploring the Multiage Classroom

Softcover

ISBN 10: 157110013X ISBN 13: 9781571100139

Publisher: Routledge, 1995

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Bingham, Anne A.

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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.

About the Author:

A classroom teacher for twenty-seven years, Anne A. Bingham spent twenty-one of those years in the multiage classrooms of Shelburne, Vermont. During a half-year sabbatical in 1987, she visited multiage classrooms around her state, ranging from two-room schoolhouses to large suburban schools. She established a network of multiage teachers and worked with them giving workshops and presentations to other professionals. Finding so little literature on multiage available for teachers, she determined to share her experiences with this book.

Anne has a master's degree in reading and language arts from the University of Vermont. She has taught inservice courses on writing in elementary schools and has published articles in Language Arts and Understanding Writing. She was a contributor to Charles Rathbone's Multiage Portraits (Crystal Springs Books 1993), in which her Shelburne classroom is portrayed. Since 1993 Anne has traveled extensively and has enjoyed her new career as a writer and community volunteer.

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