Exploring the Multiage Classroom

Bingham, Anne A.

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.