TEACHING MULTI-GRADE CLASSES

Topic 3. Implications for Teaching in Multi-grade Classroom

What is Multi-Grade Classroom?

The Multi-Grade Classroom framework contemplates the various specific conditions in

rural education and sets up the structure so as to offer help to educators to covey classrooms,
curriculum, syllabus, etc., seamlessly to individuals.

The Multi-Grade school is the main feasible school arrangement is formulated to center
around enhancing the teaching and learning conditions for student’s mental and physical
growth.

EduSys’s Multi-Grade classroom exhibits an amazing instructive tool for advancing

autonomous and individualized learning. This sorts of teaching and learning is an incredible
focal point since the education program is acclimated to the explicit needs of the individuals
and consequently adds to better learning results.

What are Advantages and Disadvantages of Multi-Grade Classroom?

Advantages of Multi-Grade Classroom

• A Multi-grade class brings together students and teachers while preparing better
stages of development in a learning environment.
• Students Performance: Students can develop healthier social relationships, positive
attitudes and enhance leadership, organizational, listening, sharing, and many other
important skills
• Easy-to-Use: Teachers can create effective syllabus and curriculums plans for students
• Improve Learning: Problem-solving, higher-level thinking, and learning methods
develop at an earlier point with multi-grade classrooms; simply because of the
immersion experience that brings students together
• Student-Teacher Relationship: A Single teacher, or the group of teachers responsible
for the multi-grade classroom, typically stay with same students until they graduate
to the next level. This garners the opportunity for students to work with the same
teachers for several years instead of having to meet new teachers at the beginning of
each new school year.
• Pre-learning and Re-teaching: Students are continuously exposed to re-teaching, as
they listen in on, and benefit from lessons which are being taught. Students are also
 exposed to pre-teaching. This both prepare and stimulate the young students
thinking.
• Better Classroom Management and Organization
• Teacher can teach two and more grades at same time

Disadvantages of Multi-Grade Classroom

• Multi-Grade system is difficult to implement in large schools with heavy population

• Textbooks in use for teaching only meet the need of mono-grade
• schools practicing multi-grade teaching often suffer from inadequate material
resources
• In remote areas, teachers’ passivity, irregularity, ill planning, non-accountability and
engagement in non-academic pursuits create and maintain a low school profile