Children Are People

Duration: 41

Genre: Educational

Year Published: 1972

Creator: Stockwell College Of Education

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Presents an integrated curriculum where students from several age groups are placed in the same classes and suggests this as an alternative organization for schools and children in order to achieve maximum fulfillment of learning potential and provide an enjoyable school environment. Illustrates that this approach integrates life experiences into projects which can involve model building, picture making, and written and oral reports, all of which culminate in a group sharing activity, and notes that new, expensive facilities and materials are not necessary. Explains how and why family grouping and several variations on this vertical grouping format are used at the infant and junior levels., Presents a teacher training program designed to provide answers concerning the practice of mixed-age, inindividualized grouping practices.

Complete Record: Presents an integrated curriculum where students from several age groups are placed in the same classes and suggests this as an alternative organization for schools and children in order to achieve maximum fulfillment of learning potential and provide an enjoyable school environment. Illustrates that this approach integrates life experiences into projects which can involve model building, picture making, and written and oral reports, all of which culminate in a group sharing activity, and notes that new, expensive facilities and materials are not necessary. Explains how and why family grouping and several variations on this vertical grouping format are used at the infant and junior levels., , Presents a teacher training program designed to provide answers concerning the practice of mixed-age, inindividualized grouping practices.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.