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Continuous Progress Schools See the "Whole Child"
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Mack, Jamie – Education, 2008
It has been called many names: Continuous Progress Format, Advancement Based on Competency (ABC), Continuous Progress Schools, and Continuous Progress Education. The idea of "Continuous Progress" refers to academic and developmental growth of students in a multi-age program. Students learn new materials as they are ready, regardless of…
Descriptors: Continuous Progress Plan, Flexible Progression, Academic Achievement, School Effectiveness
Multiage Assessment: One School's Plan.
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Arnold, Sue Beth; Kidwell, Barbara; Rossman, David – Primary Voices K-6, 1998
Describes one elementary school's multiage assessment plan. Describes how standards were developed, and describes the assessment plan's guiding element: the progress report arranged as a continuum of objectives that serve as a goal indicator and a reporting mechanism. Discusses how objectives are assessed, record keeping and documentation, and the…
Descriptors: Continuous Progress Plan, Educational Objectives, Elementary Education, Mixed Age Grouping
Primarily Yours: A Packet of Primary Program Materials.
Kentucky State Dept. of Education, Frankfort. – 1992
This packet contains four separate documents designed to help elementary schools develop their own action plans for implementing the KERA (Kentucky Education Reform Act) Primary Program, a developmentally appropriate program for young children supported by the Kentucky Department of Education. Fully implemented primary programs are to include the…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Continuous Progress Plan, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Educational Improvement
Evaluation of Team Teaching and Children's Continuous Progress (Module VI). Description of Teacher Inservice Education Materials.
National Education Association, Washington, DC. Project on Utilization of Inservice Education R & D Outcomes. – 1977
The focus of the teaching module described here is on methods of evaluating the pupil's progress in a team teaching situation and use of the parent-teacher conference as an evaluation technique. Emphasis is placed on understanding the need and purposes of continuous progress reporting (on the pupil and the program itself) and the means by which it…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Instruction, Continuous Progress Plan, Elementary Secondary Education, Individualized Instruction
Assessing Early Reading Achievement: The Road to Results.
Ervin, Robert – Phi Delta Kappan, 1998
In Bangor, Maine, a seamless, continuous-progress performance assessment in reading is evolving--all because 24 first-grade teachers objected to using standardized achievement tests. Teachers have developed the Bangor Assessment of Reading (BAR), a triennial process of assessing fluency, meaning construction, comprehension, reading strategies, and…
Descriptors: Continuous Progress Plan, Grade 1, Performance Based Assessment, Primary Education
Nongradedness: Helping It To Happen.
Anderson, Robert H.; Pavan, Barbara Nelson – 1993
Urging educators to abandon the graded system of education, this book advocates the use of a nongraded, continuous approach to education in which students are taught and assessed according to their ability rather than age. The book is divided into 11 chapters. Chapter 1 outlines the history of the graded school movement and argues that conditions…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Administrator Attitudes, Continuous Progress Plan, Curriculum Design
Creating the Multiage Classroom.
Stone, Sandra J. – 1996
School restructuring movements have gained a great deal of national attention. This guidebook addresses the multi-age classroom movement, in which a mixed-age group of children stays with a given teacher for a number of years. The work provides a complete design for the mixed-age primary classroom, from philosophy and rationale to sample lesson…
Descriptors: Classroom Design, Classroom Environment, Continuous Progress Plan, Cross Age Teaching