Creating the Multiage Classroom

School restructuring movements across the country have spurred national interest in multiage classrooms. At the same time, questions from teachers, administrators, and parents about teaching mixed ages abound. Now, there's a practical guidebook to address your questions and concerns.

Creating the Multiage Classroom provides a complete design for the mixed-age primary classroom-from philosophy and rationale to sample lesson plans and evaluations forms. Teachers and administrators will find answers to all their questions about planning, implementation, environment, curriculum, management, assessment, and evaluation.

This indispensable handbook offers:

• Background on why multiage classrooms are beneficial to children
  
• Answers to questions commonly asked by teachers and parents
  
• Teaching strategies and classroom management ideas that work well in multiage classrooms
  
• Examples from actual mixed-age classrooms
  
• Planning and evaluation forms
  
• Usable lesson plans
  
• Specific strategies for teaching the content areas to mixed ages
  
• Assessment strategies for reading, writing, math, social studies, science, art, and music
  
• Forms for reporting to and communicating with parents
• 272 Pages