For Your Binder
Making the Most of the Mix!
Many of you know that Lisa is a vigilante mixed age grouper! Whatever ages can legally be together in one room (it varies from place to place) is what she is going to do! This is a list of the resources Lisa tapped into as she wrote the Mixed Ages paper that she presents during the workshop of the same title. You will find most of these individual articles here in the resources section of the website if you want to explore the topic further! #handouts #mixedages #teaching #DAP
Mixed-Age Preschools?
In this blog post Jarrod answers a question about mixed age groupings. #DAP #learning #teaching #mixedages
The Benefits of Mixed-Age Grouping
A nice overview of Lilian Katz' book, The Case for Mixed-Age Grouping in Early Education, 1990, if you have not yet read it! #DAP #learning #teaching #mixedages
Mixed Age Grouping - Why we love it!
When I first read this article in the margins I simply wrote, "This is beautiful." #DAP #play #teaching #learning #mixedages
Are mixed-grade classes any better or worse for learning?
Age is not always an accurate predictor of a child's actual development. #DAP #learning #teaching #mixedages
Multi-Age Groupings in Early Childhood Education: The affordances and opportunities of a multi-age child care model
You'll need to restock your ink and paper if you like to print things out. It'll be worth it! #mixedages #learning #teaching #DAP
Benefits of Mixed-Age Groups in Early Child Education
Life isn't always separated by age! There is magic in the mix! #mixedages #DAP #learning #teaching
The Benefits of the Mix
Children aren't born in litters, but we insist they be cared for in them! #DAP #mixedages #play #teaching #learning
Mixed-Age Classrooms Provide Optimal Learning Environment
The nursery (pre)school should be an extension of the family outward rather than of the elementary school downward. #mixedages #DAP #learning #teaching
It’s in the Mix. An Exploratory Study of a Mixed Age Group Model in West Dublin
Play in a mixed age group is more creative than competitive. #mixedages #play #learning #teaching #DAP
Assessing and Scaffolding Make Believe Play
For your consideration, I offer a counter-comment to this article: How about instead of applying another adult-directed ACrYNoM we put back into early childhood programs the things the adults stole in the first place? I'll offer time, choice, play and mixed ages to get the conversation started... #mixedages #play #DAP #teaching #learning
The Natural Environment for Children’s Self-Education: The Sudbury Valley School is in these ways like a hunter-gatherer band
Play and exploration requires enormous amounts of unscheduled time - time to do whatever one wants to do, without pressure, judgment, or intrusion from authority figures. #play #teaching #learning #mixedages
