Essay On Multigrade Class

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On a closely related note, Hyry-Beihammer and Hascher (2015) focused on teaching a certain number of practices employed in grade classes. Grade classes refer to how students are group together in classes based on their grade rather than their age. Therefore, Multigrade classes, as defined by authors, are worldwide classes where students of different grade categories are in the same class, therefore, less abled students were mixed with high achieving students. It is well known that in such classes, the teacher plays a crucial role in balancing the different needs for each grade category according to their learning capacity. This can often be very tricky and challenging, however, it is known by schools when assigning teachers for multi-grade classes, that these teachers must be very capable, flexible and efficient in dealing with students with different learning capacities. There is an urgent need for the teacher to become familiar with how to teach in such a class environment. This system is very common especially in the third …show more content…

For example, if she is teaching a lesson about DNA replication, the teacher could assign roles to students where some could be the old DNA, some could be the enzymes, and others could be the new DNA and then they interact and act out the process replication and demonstrate to their peers how the process is done. Songs, acts, dances, pictures are all out of the box yet simple methods to explain educational concepts and make it clearer to students even if they are less abled, they would still be on the same page as everybody else as these representations are much easier to grasp and understand by everyone. A teacher who is imaginative enough to embed artistic tools to engage the students and make their concepts crystal clear is more likely to fetch higher results from

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