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Direct linkNelson, Carolyn; Harper, Victoria – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2006
In this article, the authors explore the notion of difficulty and the vital role it can play in the learning journey of student teachers, both with respect to their own and their students' educational maturation. Confronting today's popular but flawed American reductionist learning models, the authors explicate the opportunity for deeper learning…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Transformative Learning, Critical Thinking, Curriculum Development
Gaustad, Joan – 1992
In nongraded education, children of different ages and ability levels are taught together and make continuous progress rather than being promoted once per year. Research studies support nongraded primary education by indicating that young children vary in their rates of intellectual development and learn best through hands-on activities with…
Descriptors: Board of Education Role, Continuous Progress Plan, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Educational Change
Sumner, Deborah, Ed. – 1993
This resource book contains a variety of information on multiage practice, and instruction in mixed-age and grade-level classrooms. The first two parts of the book contain 24 reprinted articles: (1) "Ready To Learn: A Seven-Step Strategy"; (2) "On Tracking and Individual Differences: A Conversation with Jeannie Oakes"; (3)…
Descriptors: Class Organization, Classroom Techniques, Continuous Progress Plan, Cooperative Learning
Holmberg, Borje – 1985
A questionnaire developed in six languages--English, French, German, Polish, Russian, and Spanish--was mailed to more than 1,500 organizations known by the FernUniversitat in West Germany to be connected in some way to distance education, correspondence education, or home study. The study was undertaken as a response to the lack of systematic…
Descriptors: Audiotape Recordings, Continuous Progress Plan, Correspondence Study, Developing Nations
Patterson, Jerry L. – 1973
This study attempted to develop a conceptual model of a nongraded high school program comprised of the (1) philosophical orientation, (2) psychologial orientation, (3) principles of nongrading, and (4) instruction phase. Using a deductive approach, the author discusses each of these elements with parameters of the learner, the teacher, the…
Descriptors: Conceptual Schemes, Continuous Progress Plan, Deduction, Doctoral Dissertations
Horsman, Helen – 1997
In Saskatchewan, a growing number of schools contain split-grade or multi-grade classrooms. This resource is designed to help teachers develop a vision of how successful teaching and learning can occur in multi-level classrooms. It provides teachers with practical applications that support an environment that is learner-centered. The first four…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Continuous Progress Plan, Elementary Secondary Education
Grant, Jim; Johnson, Bob – 1994
Recognizing that children are individuals with different needs, backgrounds, learning styles, and personalities, this book provides information on elements of a successful multiage, continuous progress classroom at the primary level. Following an introduction to the concept of multiage, continuous progress practices, the book discusses the…
Descriptors: Child Development, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Style
Hass, Glen – 1969
This pamphlet surveys the research and literature concerned with the effects of curriculum and instructional practices on pupil progress. Specific topics include (1) student grade acceleration and retardation, and elimination from school; (2) graded vs nongraded curriculum and school organization; (3) teaching and curriculum practices for…
Descriptors: Acceleration, Bibliographies, Continuous Progress Plan, Curriculum Design
Fogarty, Robin, Ed. – 1993
Noting that the recent call for holistic models of schooling dictates a thorough investigation of more natural groupings of students, this collection of articles reviews available literature on multiage, nongraded, continuous progress classrooms. Divided into six sections, the chapters explore the overriding concerns and the pros and cons of such…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Academic Achievement, Age Grade Placement, Classroom Environment
MORNINGSTAR, NED – 1965
THIS REPORT IS A DOCUMENTATION OF THE EFFORTS OF THE STAFF OF THE ASPEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, ASPEN, COLORADO, TO INDIVIDUALIZE THE INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAM IN GRADES K-6. INVOLVED IN THIS WERE APPROXIMATELY 450 STUDENTS AND A STAFF OF 13 TEACHERS. THE INDIVIDUALIZATION OF INSTRUCTION WAS ACCOMPLISHED THROUGH THE MODIFICATION OF THE TEACHING-LEARNING…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Continuous Progress Plan, Elementary Schools, Evaluation
Peer reviewedTanner, C. Kenneth; Decotis, John D. – Journal of Research and Development in Education, 1995
Kindergartners and first-graders in regular classrooms were compared to students in nongraded, continuous-progress settings. Comparisons on academic achievement and school attitudes indicated differences favoring nongraded, continuous-progress settings for various academic and citizenship skills. Girls in the nongraded, continuous-progress group…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Techniques, Comparative Analysis, Continuous Progress Plan
Synthesis, 1992
This newsletter examines the continuous progress (CP) curriculum, the primary characteristic of which is flexible pacing for the student. The newsletter notes some of the practical concerns limiting implementation of CP curricula, and how some schools have overcome them. It then discusses four issues that schools must address to employ a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academically Gifted, Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Style
Kapfer, Philip G.; Ovard, Glen F. – 1971
An Individualized Learning Package (ILP) is a method for translating traditional curriculum guides and teacher lesson plans into an individualized set of student lesson plans which permit each student to progress continually through the curriculum at his own optimum rate. An ILP offers alternative ways of achieving stated behavioral objectives and…
Descriptors: Autoinstructional Aids, Behavioral Objectives, Continuous Progress Plan, Curriculum
Texas Association of Junior Coll. Instructional Administrators. – 1975
This document contains reports and abstracts of research relating to current problems of community college education in Texas. Topics discussed include: methods of encouraging students to accept responsibility for their own learning; individualized instruction and the concept of continuous progress; the effectiveness of three modes of instructor…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, College Faculty, Community Colleges, Compensatory Education
Michael, Robert O.; And Others – 1994
An evaluation was conducted of a comprehensive plan to restructure a primary school in Candler County, Georgia, into a non-graded, multi-age, continuous progress learning center. The project entailed restructuring the classroom, implementing a shared decision-making structure, developing a learning curriculum, and using portfolio assessment to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Rating, Classroom Design, Classroom Techniques
