Reflection in Multigrade Teaching

Theme: “Enhancing Competence in Multigrade Teaching to address the Demands of the 21^ST Century Education”

Ø  To be successful multigrade teacher, I must balance my time effectively and prepare variety of activities to keep all groups of students engaged in the multigrade environment which is an opportunity to develop new and more effective teaching processes.

Ø Multigrade teaching is an important and appropriate way to provide good quality education to children who are often neglected by their education system because of the area of living they have, poor and remote communities.

Ø Learning environment should also be considered to create a classroom conducive to learning.

Ø Multigrade classroom provide the opportunity to break down the hindrance between grades and look at the students as group of learners.

Ø As a multi grade teacher, I am the key to plan, design, and manage the range of both grade - appropriate and mixed - grade activities for children to keep the interest for the learners to learn.

Ø And as a Mulltigrade, you have to be flexible and use various teaching methods, according to their specific teaching need at the time. This not only supports the educational worth of the teacher and serves the national curriculum goals, but also represent flexible methods that encourage children to be independent and develop their personalities.