Elective-

Teaching Multigrade Classes

Activity No. 5
Teaching Effectively in a Multigrade Classroom
• Once you start teaching in a multigrade classroom, how
effective your teaching is will largely depend on how well you
are prepared to handle multiple activities. The goal is to
create diverse instructional strategies both suitable to the
curriculum content and based on the needs of your pupils.
Management of teaching calls for you to strategically plan
activities to engage the students through direct teaching, with
a peer tutor, in a small group, or in independent study.
 Useful suggestions:
• Group strategically
• Prepare flexible and appropriate materials
• Promote self- paced learning
• Give extra attention to children with special education
needs
Adapting the Curriculum and Lesson PLans
 select common themes from one subject suitable for
all the grades in your multigrade classroom
 develop a flexible timetable for all the grades
throughout the session on this time table
 develop daily lesson plans for each unit related to
this theme with the help of textbooks and reference
material
 select activities linked to the curriculum that are to be
conducted in the class
 develop relevant worksheets for individual or group
practice
 relate concepts fron the curriculum to examples from
your pupils’daily lives
 prepare quizzes to assess your pupils’mastery of the
curriculum content
 Developing Teaching Strategies
• Strategy 1: Teach all groups together
• Strategy 2: Teach one grade while others wok independently
• Strategy 3: Teach one subject to all grades and at varying
levels of difficulty
• Strategy 4: Develop activities for non- taught groups
• Strategy 5: Develop peer, cross- age and cross- grade
teaching strategies
• Strategy 6: Relate learning with daily experience
 Things to keep in mind:
• Subject matter and Competencies in the K to 12 Curriculum in every grade
level is the same, they just vary in the level of difficulty. The higher the grade
level, the more difficult it becomes...that is spiral progression. There are
competencies in the different grade level that go along in the same
quarter/period but there are also some which do not belong to the same
quarter/period. For instance in English (just an example), in grade 3 Noun could
be in the 2nd grading but for grade 4, it is in the 3rd grading. A multigrade
teacher must be acquainted with every grade level’s curriculum guide so that
he/she can create a lesson plan with the same subject matter in all grade
levels but differ in the activities and assessment as they vary in their level of
difficulty. So the teacher can teach Noun for grades 3 and 4 at the same time
but the activities and assessment varies.
 Things to keep in mind:
• If the teacher opted to follow the curriculum guide even if
the subject matter and competencies vary in the different
grade levels, he/ she should just brilliant enough to carry
the learning outcomes expected to be observable at the
end of the lesson.
 Task!
• I would like you to prepare a lesson plan could be similar to the one
presented or you may search form the source mentioned in the given
example and other possible sources.
• The lesson plan will be used for your demonstration teaching assuming that
you are handling Grades 3 and 4 pupils.
• You are going to send to me the picture of your lesson plan not later than July
20, 2021 ( Tuesday), 8 pm.
• In your demonstration teaching, I will be guided with the lesson plan you
have made. I will not allow you to change your subject matter and even your
lesson plan. The one that you will submit is final. Wait for my instruction on
Tuesday evening for your next activity. Do not film yet your demonstration
teaching.
THANK YOU!