Multigrade Teaching: a Discussion Document
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Multigrade teaching occurs within a graded system of education when a single class contains two or more student grade levels. It is contrasted with the usual pattern of classroom organization in graded systems where a single classroom contains students of only one grade level. In many graded systems, age and grade are congruent, so a grade level is also equivalent to a particular age group of students. However, this may not be the case in systems where grade level repetition and acceleration are common. There are three important reasons why multigrade teaching may occur in both developed and developing countries.
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