Lesson 6: Teaching Multigrade Classes
Duration: 3 hours
Learning Objectives
After completing this lesson, you should be able to accomplish the following:
1. describe the nature of Multigrade Teaching
2. identify the characteristics of Multigrade Teaching in the Philippines,
3. criticize the nature and structure of a Multigrade classroom ,
4. identify the learning difficulties and other problems which are encountered
in multigrade teaching,
5. examine the projects and experiments which are being conducted by the
different countries in an effort to find solutions to problems in multigrade
teaching,
Equality of educational opportunity is conceived as not
only providing access to education but also creating
conditions of success for the millions of learners living in
remote, sparsely populated mountain regions, deserts,
islands, lagoons, plains and other inaccessible areas.
Multigrade classes bring more children to school
Will a teacher not hold class if there are just a few enrollees? Should a
student drop out if the school is far from home or there is not enough
teachers and classroom?
If you ask the Department of Education, the answer is no because it
continues to find ways to bring children to school in order to complete their
basic education.
One of these is the holding of multigrade classes. A multigrade class is a
class consisting of two or more different grade levels inside a single grade
classroom handled by one teacher for an entire school year. It is offered in
elementary schools located in distant and sparsely-populated localities.
Figures from DepEd show that there are close to a million enrollees in
multigrade classes across the country.
To understand better the nature, structure, and the role of a
Mutligrade Teaching into our course, kindly read the
following articles by following their links (URL). You may
download them directly by clicking the links.
a.) UNESCO.(1989).Multigrade teaching in single teacher primary schools. Asia and
the Pacific Programme of Educational innovation for Development (APEID).
Unesco Principal Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific P.O. Box 967,
Prakanong Post Office Bangkok 10110, Thailand
b.) What is multigrade teaching ?(n.d.). Multigrade Teaching in Zambia. Available @
[email protected]c.) Multi-grade teaching.(n.d).Wikipilipinas: The Hip 'n Free Philippine Encyclopedia.
Available @ http://en.wikipilipinas.org/index.php/Multi-grade_teaching
d.) Department of Education.(March, 2012). Multigrade classes bring more children to
school.News Updates. Available @ http://www.deped.gov.ph/index.php/news-
updates/updates/203-multigrade-classes-bring-more-children-to-school
Knowledge is a power now in your hands. Let us check your
understanding on the matter by simply answer our worksheets.