For Your Binder
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
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
Strategies for Working with Mixed-Age Groups in Early Childhood Education
Grouping children in narrow age cohorts is a fairly new practice! #mixedages #teaching #learning #DAP
Mixed-Age Preschool: Benefits and Challenges
Mixed-age classrooms might also have the benefit of muddying age-based comparisons and competition between children. #mixedages #teaching #learning #parenting #DAP
5 Benefits of Mixed-Age Classrooms in Preschool
A good overview of the benefits of The Mix, but the reason it's here is for the modified image of Vygotsky's ZPD, which I really liked! #teaching #learning #theorists #mixedages #DAP
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
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
Using Mixed-Age Groups to Support Continuity of Care in Center-Based Programs
Mixed-age groupings create a frame for deepening relationships for staff with children and their families. #mixedages #DAP #teaching #learning
Mixed-Age Preschools?
In this blog post Jarrod answers a question about mixed age groupings. #DAP #learning #teaching #mixedages
The Advantages and Disadvantages of Multiage Classrooms in the Era of NCLB Accountability
How can we reap the benefits of The Mix when 8 out of 10 teachers report being opposed to differentiated instruction? #teaching #learning #mixedages
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
Why Children Might Benefit From a “Combination” Classroom
Nine advantages of blended classrooms! #DAP #learning #teaching #mixedages
