Course Details

CLM100: Teaching Multiage Groups

Course ID 70515

ChildCare Education Institute

(800) 499-9907

Description

This course provides a guide to managing a multiage environment, in which students of different ages and skill levels share a classroom as well as a basic curriculum. Participants will compare multiage to traditional graded classrooms and learn about the potential benefits of incorporating multiage strategies into any classroom. This course also provides comprehensive recommendations and strategies for organizing a classroom, facilitating group projects, managing a peer tutoring program, and much more.

3.00 Hours / 0.30 CEUs

Course Level

Formal

CEU Course

Course Category

Early Childhood

Formal Approved

(3 Hours)

CDA Content Areas

Strategies to manage an effective program operation (3 Hours)

Infant Mental Health Core Competency Areas

Family Child Care Home Provider

Child Care Center Staff

Head Start/Early Head Start

Infants (0-12 months)

Toddlers (13-24 months)

Two's (25-36 months)

Preschooler 3's (37-48 months)

Preschool 4's and 5's (49-72 months)

Goals and Objectives

• Identify characteristics of multiage education
• Compare multiage education to the traditional graded-classroom approach
• Identify potential benefits to students of multiage education
• Identify cognitive, social-emotional, and psychomotor characteristics of children at various developmental levels
• Demonstrate understanding of recommended strategies for classroom management and discipline in the multiage environment
• Demonstrate understanding of strategies for classroom organization in the multiage environment
• Demonstrate understanding of various learning strategies that are effective in the multiage environment, including peer tutoring, cooperative learning, heterogeneous grouping, and self-directed learning
• Identify effective assessment methods for the multiage environment

There are no events currently scheduled for this course.