Preston Dumaine, a Kindergarten/Grade 1/Grade 2 teacher at Macoun School shares her ideas and strategies for making her multi-grade classroom developmentally appropriate for the various grade levels. Educators will gain an understanding of how Kindergarten can be embedded in a K/1/2 multi-grade classroom.
Highlighted in the video are student/teacher engagement, uses of questioning, modelling, inquiry processes and early literacy strategies. This is an inspiring and helpful video for new educators teaching multi-grades in the early years.
A bibliography of resources on multi-grade teaching is available through the Stewart Resources Centre at the Saskatchewan Teachers' Federation (https://www.stf.sk.ca/sites/default/files/bibliography/bibliography_multiage_multigrade_classroom.pdf).