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Download full textBoyd, Pete – Teacher Education Advancement Network Journal, 2020
Internationally, schools with small numbers of children and constrained funding are not able to group the children in classes based on their age. Rather, the children are combined into larger 'mixed-age' classes. Schools and teachers manage this situation in different ways, for example by teaching the class as two or more separate age-based groups…
Descriptors: Mixed Age Grouping, Mastery Learning, Mathematics Instruction, Foreign Countries
Direct linkLanvers, Ursula – Language Learning Journal, 2020
In the context of the UK language learning crisis, several studies have aimed to influence student attitude towards languages via school interventions, with mixed results. A six-session tacking diverse metalinguistic issues (e.g. cognitive benefits of language learning, world languages) was carried out in three secondary schools in England, using…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Modern Languages, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Roberts, John; Eady, Sandra – Education 3-13, 2012
This study, based in a small rural school, explores the opportunities provided by collaborative learning with a mixed aged class of 7-11 year olds (Year 3-Year 6). This paper specifically focuses on those children aged 7-8 years (Year 3) and how they worked on improving the quality of their writing through optional and directed collaborative group…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Cooperative Learning, Mixed Age Grouping, Children
Popov, Nikolay, Ed.; Wolhuter, Charl, Ed.; de Beer, Louw, Ed.; Hilton, Gillian, Ed.; Ogunleye, James, Ed.; Achinewhu-Nworgu, Elizabeth, Ed.; Niemczyk, Ewelina, Ed. – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2021
This volume contains a collection of selected papers submitted to the 19th Annual International Conference of the Bulgarian Comparative Education Society (BCES) held in June 2021. The 19th BCES Conference theme is "New Challenges to Education: Lessons from around the World." The book includes 40 papers written by 66 authors from 15…
Descriptors: Educational History, Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Global Approach
Crowther, Patricia – Adults Learning (England), 1991
A British adult education center successfully offered foreign language instruction to children and adults together. Lessons learned from the experience include limiting attendance to 1 child per adult, targeting children aged 9-10, and extending the course to 20-25 weeks. (SK)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Involvement, Elementary Education, Family Programs
Sharp, Caroline; Hutchison, Dougal; Keys, Wendy – Compare, 2002
Responds to article "Comparing School Systems to Explain Enduring Birth Date Effects". Addresses article in relation to England and Wales. Refutes argument that selective promotion is a mechanism for the continuation of the birth effect in schools. Agrees that this phenomenon is worthy of further research. (CAJ)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age, Age Grade Placement, Biology
Evans, Ros; Bellett, Eileen – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2006
This article sets out to compare and contrast two different projects, aimed to get primary teachers collaborating online, with respect to advice from research on how to engage participants. The first project tried to encourage teachers in small rural schools to share ideas for the implementation of the National Numeracy Strategy. The second was…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Comparative Analysis, Partnerships in Education, Teaching Methods
Fisher, Ros; Lewis, Maureen; Davis, Bernie – Topic, 2000
Introduction of the National Literacy Strategy (NLS) into all English schools means that even teachers in small schools with mixed-age classes undertake a large amount of whole-class literacy teaching. The NLS promotes the use of specific teaching strategies during a carefully structured hour-long literacy session. Also, the framework of…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Classroom Techniques, Educational Change, Elementary Education
