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    This document outlines strategies for teaching and learning in multi-grade classrooms. It discusses individual teacher planning to ensure curriculum objectives are met, considerations for making objectives multi-grade friendly, and providing examples of long and short-term planning templates. It also addresses timetabling, providing sample schedules. Promoting independent learning is a focus, outlining linked strategies for oral language, reading, and writing across the curriculum. A CD-ROM with additional planning resources and materials is also referenced.

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    This document outlines strategies for teaching and learning in multi-grade classrooms. It discusses individual teacher planning to ensure curriculum objectives are met, considerations for making objectives multi-grade friendly, and providing examples of long and short-term planning templates. It also addresses timetabling, providing sample schedules. Promoting independent learning is a focus, outlining linked strategies for oral language, reading, and writing across the curriculum. A CD-ROM with additional planning resources and materials is also referenced.

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    This document outlines strategies for teaching and learning in multi-grade classrooms. It discusses individual teacher planning to ensure curriculum objectives are met, considerations for making objectives multi-grade friendly, and providing examples of long and short-term planning templates. It also addresses timetabling, providing sample schedules. Promoting independent learning is a focus, outlining linked strategies for oral language, reading, and writing across the curriculum. A CD-ROM with additional planning resources and materials is also referenced.

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    Multigrade Teaching

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    csarali
    This document outlines strategies for teaching and learning in multi-grade classrooms. It discusses individual teacher planning to ensure curriculum objectives are met, considerations for making objectives multi-grade friendly, and providing examples of long and short-term planning templates. It also addresses timetabling, providing sample schedules. Promoting independent learning is a focus, outlining linked strategies for oral language, reading, and writing across the curriculum. A CD-ROM with additional planning resources and materials is also referenced.

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    Multi-grade teaching

    Practical strategies to promote learning and teaching in the multi-grade classroom

    Overview

    Strategies to support teaching and learning in the multi-grade classroom Tutors input Participants input

    Overview of workshop

    Individual Teacher Planning


    - curricular objectives

    Timetabling - samples Promoting the Independent Learner linked strategies

    By the end of the workshop


    What? A possible whole school practice in the planning of English Why? To improve our teaching and learning How? CD-ROM: related planning resources

    Individual Teacher Planning


    Ensuring that the objectives of the Primary School Curriculum are at the centre of all learning in the multigrade class

    Considerations

    Awareness of the objective? Over-reliance on the use of textbooks to address the objectives? Curricular documents perceived not to be multi-grade friendly?

    Objectives user-friendly for the MGC

    English Curricular Objectives

    English

    Objectives in the context of multi grade Link with appropriate methodologies

    If children cannot learn the way we

    teach, then we must teach the way they learn.

    English

    Whole School Plan - Agreed approaches Long-term plan - English Short-term planning: Templates

    Timetabling

    Sample timetables
    Time allocation for every curricular area per week

    An alternative approach
    A timetable in terms of how things are best learned

    Independent Learner
    The curriculum aims to ensure that the childrens experience of school will be such that they will come to value learning and will develop the ability to learn independently.
    Primary School Curriculum (1999 p. 10)

    WSE (two teacher school)


    Pupils with learning difficulties need closer monitoring and work needs to be assigned which is appropriate and allows them work more independently as they moved through the classes.

    Practical strategies to develop the independent learner


    Planning for implementation Focus on the English Curriculum

    Linkage Integration Differentiation

    Promoting the independent learner through


    Oral Language

    Language Experience Charts- across the curriculum Visual Arts - Looking & Responding Maths- Problem Solving

    Promoting the independent learner through


    Reading

    Extra Reading- USSR, DEAR Reading Buddies

    Promoting the independent learner through Writing

    Writing Process My Writing

    Buddy

    CD-ROM contents
    Folder 1: Individual Teacher Planning

    English Multi-grade Objectives Sample Long-term English Plan Sample Short-term Templates Organisational Considerations to support Learning General Information Small Schools

    CD-ROM contents
    Folder 2: Timetabling

    Multi-grade Samples

    Folder 3: The Independent Learner


    Oral Language Reading Writing

    Workshop
    Discuss the ideas you have just heard.

    Agree on 2-3 of these ideas which you feel you would definitely implement in your school

    Suggest 2-3 other ideas which you have found useful.

    Go n-ir go geal libh go lir

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