The Multi Age Learning Community In Action

Author : Barbara Cozza
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781475837759

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The Multi-age Learning Community in Action by Barbara Cozza Pdf

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 are short 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.

Author : Colleen Politano,Anne Davies
Publisher : Portage & Main Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Education
ISBN : 1895411653

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Multi-age and More by Colleen Politano,Anne Davies Pdf

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

Author : Sandra Stone
Publisher : Good Year Books
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2004-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781596470248

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Creating the Multiage Classroom by Sandra Stone Pdf

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.

Author : Sandra J. Stone,Kathleen G. Burriss
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780429516368

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Understanding Multiage Education by Sandra J. Stone,Kathleen G. Burriss Pdf

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.

Author : Barbara Cozza
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781475866896

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The Inclusive World of Today’s Classrooms by Barbara Cozza Pdf

As school systems struggle to meet the needs of all learners, this learning framework is the most effective way to structure schools. The book is intended to assist educators at all levels of school organizations and give policymakers and parents information on an effective way to encourage learners to achieve on high levels. The audience should read this book to gain ideas on how to improve school programs when accommodating the diversity of students found in classrooms. This book integrates concepts focused on inclusivity, social reform, and second language learning strategies. Technology and a multi-age learning community framework are elements that transform a traditional school program into a powerful learning community for accommodating all learners to achieve on high levels.

Author : Alice Leeds,David Marshak
Publisher : R&L Education
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2002-06-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781461706137

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Teaching and Learning in the Intermediate Multiage Classroom by Alice Leeds,David Marshak Pdf

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.

Author : Anne A. Bingham
Publisher : Stenhouse Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Nongraded schools
ISBN : 157110013X

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Exploring the Multiage Classroom by Anne A. Bingham Pdf

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.

Author : Bruce A. Miller
Publisher : University of Oregon Eric Clearinghouse
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Education
ISBN : 0865521301

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Children at the Center by Bruce A. Miller Pdf

This handbook examines practices and issues involved in the implementation of multiage programs. Data were collected through site visits at four schools with reputations for excellent multiage programs; interviews with a representative sample of parents and teachers at each school; document analysis; a survey of multiage teachers, parents, and principals at each school; and a survey of participants attending a national conference on multiage instruction. Before implementing multiage programs, six important questions should be asked regarding: the reasons for implementation, teacher roles, type of school or organizational climate, type of parent and community involvement, leadership, and factors for success that can be generalized to other settings. The following guiding principles were identified: (1) There are compelling benefits for students and teachers that justify implementing multiage organization; (2) there is no single model; (3) neither bottom-up nor top-down implementation, by itself, is effective; (4) multiage programs require major conceptual change; (5) implementation is best viewed as an evolving, long-term change at the deepest levels of teacher beliefs about how humans learn; and (6) several incremental steps can facilitate and improve the likelihood of success. A total of 17 tables and 3 figures are included. Appendices contain information on the study methodology, data collection instruments, and codebook. (LMI)

Author : Neeraja Raghavan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781003833734

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A Learning Community of Reflective Teachers by Neeraja Raghavan Pdf

Teachers possess a wealth of untapped wisdom and valuable experience. Whether it’s in matter of educational policy, curriculum development or textbook selection, teachers carry a trove of information and insights to share. Traditionally, teacher development has been driven by administrators of schools, and it often takes the form of a ‘mentor’ teaching the staff of a school. But what happens when teachers across different locations collaborate and learn together? This volume documents such an initiative, sparked off by the Covid-19 pandemic, which brought people together online. It underscores the power of teachers debating, discussing, and learning from each other. Based on an Indian experience, the book addresses a range of issues teachers and educators face across the world — encompassing pedagogy, classroom management, school culture and teacher development. A unique story of community building and teacher education, this book also contains key outcomes and insights which take us through their action research projects and showcases a model of teacher development that can be adopted by interested readers. Above all, it brings out the crying need for a teacher’s voice to be heard — for far too long, teachers have been mere implementers of decisions taken by policy makers or managements of schools. By means of networking communities such as the one described in this book, the transformation of teachers going from whispers to resonance is greatly amplified. An important intervention in the domain of teacher development, this volume will be of great interest to students, researchers and practitioners of education, teacher education, and sociology of education. It will also be useful for teacher trainees, academicians, teacher educators, policymakers, schoolteachers, curriculum developers, teacher training institutes, and universities offering teacher education programs.

Author : Sandra J. Stone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Education
ISBN : UVA:X006118510

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The Multiage Classroom by Sandra J. Stone Pdf

Author : James McLeskey,Nancy L. Waldron
Publisher : ASCD
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780871203892

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Inclusive Schools in Action by James McLeskey,Nancy L. Waldron Pdf

For any school undertaking an inclusion program, here's an opportunity to find out what works and explore a 10-step plan that can achieve positive academic and social outcomes for all students -- with and without disabilities.

Author : Joyce L. Epstein,Mavis G. Sanders,Steven B. Sheldon,Beth S. Simon,Karen Clark Salinas,Natalie Rodriguez Jansorn,Frances L. Van Voorhis,Cecelia S. Martin,Brenda G. Thomas,Marsha D. Greenfeld,Darcy J. Hutchins,Kenyatta J. Williams
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781483320014

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School, Family, and Community Partnerships by Joyce L. Epstein,Mavis G. Sanders,Steven B. Sheldon,Beth S. Simon,Karen Clark Salinas,Natalie Rodriguez Jansorn,Frances L. Van Voorhis,Cecelia S. Martin,Brenda G. Thomas,Marsha D. Greenfeld,Darcy J. Hutchins,Kenyatta J. Williams Pdf

Strengthen programs of family and community engagement to promote equity and increase student success! When schools, families, and communities collaborate and share responsibility for students′ education, more students succeed in school. Based on 30 years of research and fieldwork, the fourth edition of the bestseller School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Your Handbook for Action, presents tools and guidelines to help develop more effective and more equitable programs of family and community engagement. Written by a team of well-known experts, it provides a theory and framework of six types of involvement for action; up-to-date research on school, family, and community collaboration; and new materials for professional development and on-going technical assistance. Readers also will find: Examples of best practices on the six types of involvement from preschools, and elementary, middle, and high schools Checklists, templates, and evaluations to plan goal-linked partnership programs and assess progress CD-ROM with slides and notes for two presentations: A new awareness session to orient colleagues on the major components of a research-based partnership program, and a full One-Day Team Training Workshop to prepare school teams to develop their partnership programs. As a foundational text, this handbook demonstrates a proven approach to implement and sustain inclusive, goal-linked programs of partnership. It shows how a good partnership program is an essential component of good school organization and school improvement for student success. This book will help every district and all schools strengthen and continually improve their programs of family and community engagement.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2000-03-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264181045

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Knowledge Management in the Learning Society by OECD Pdf

This book analyses and compares concretely the processes of knowledge production, dissemination and use in the engineering, the information and communication technology, the health and the education sectors.

Author : Charles Rathbone
Publisher : Staff Development for Educators
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 0962738972

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Multiage Portraits by Charles Rathbone Pdf

Author : Maggie Favretti
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000786613

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Learning in the Age of Climate Disasters by Maggie Favretti Pdf

Learn how to infuse learning with deeper purpose, connectedness, and engagement, so students feel more empowered and less anxious about their futures. In Learning in the Age of Climate Disasters, author and award-winning teacher Maggie Favretti outlines the contexts and causes of "futurephobia" and then offers Regenerative Learning strategies rooted in nature’s principles for repair and redesign. She explains how tending the soil and cultivating the roots of (re)generative power (Love, Personhood, People, Place, Purpose, Process, Positivity) help us disrupt degenerative hierarchical fragmentation. She also explores methods for co-empowering youth creativity, agency, and hope. Chapters include interviews with and contributions by children and young people, as well as key takeaways (Seeds for Planting), and tools to help you implement the ideas. With this book’s thought-provoking concepts, you’ll be able to help students overcome eco-anxiety and find healing connection and meaning for more sustained, regenerative change.