Respect and cooperation among peers are expanded through interaction. Students become more responsible for, and engaged in, their own learning. The teacher assumes the role of facilitator rather than information dispenser. A sense of community develops as cooperatively designed student activities are created. Many grouping patterns naturally emerge.
Assessment is authentic, continuous, and related to learning endeavors.
For the Engles, all content areas are taught in large blocks of time with no separation between the actual subjects. Most of the units within the year-long theme take approximately 6 weeks to complete. Here is an example of an outline from the first year of the two year multiage cycle - Integrated Thematic Unit for Immigration . Please feel free to print it off and use it as a guideline for creating your own units. We believe that technology can be used to enhance learning through skill building software.