From the Publisher
Teacher-friendly, step by step teacher's guide for setting up and managing a multi-age classroom. (For grades 1-8) Ideas for organization, curriculum, instructional strategies, and assessment in the multi-age classroom. Included are considerations for starting a multi-age program, techniques for classroom management, methods and forms for developing a student record keeping system, schedules for a typical day, ways to improve questioning strategies which develop higher-level thinking skills, a glossary of multi-age terminology, and a section on portfolio assessment.
About the Author
Janet Caudill Banks, MA, educator, author of: Creating the Multi-Age Classroom, Creative Projects for Independent Learners, Developing Research Skills: Independent Research Projects on Animals and Plants, Enhancing Research Skills: A Thematic Research Unit on the Civil War, Essential Learnings of Mathematics: What Students Should Know and Be Able to Do, and Creating and Assessing Performance-Based Curriculum Projects: A Teacher's Guide to Project-Based Learning and Performance Assessment. A national educational consultant, after 33 years of teaching at the elementary school level, Janet is writing curriculum and teaching classes and workshops for schools and school districts interested in multi-age and developmental education. She is an adjunct faculty member for Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, WA. She lives in Edmonds, WA, with her husband, Al, her dog, Punkin, and two cats, Ginger and Pepper. She has two married children and two grandchildren.
