This provides both the teacher and the student an opportunity for more in-depth study, comprehensive experiments and review. Seminar classes provide ongoing academic help and a specific teacher to whom students can turn, thus enhancing their academic success. Multi-age Classrooms are designed to maximize the achievement of every student and provide continuous learning opportunities while eliminating unnecessary repetition of classroom instruction. Two separate grade-level classrooms combine and these students work together as a class and in smaller groups. The students benefit by learning from each other as well as the teachers.
Every student can be on a different mastery level and cooperation is valued over competition.
This helps to ensure student mastery of each grade level. Teachers have a chance to build a rapport with students in these classrooms. The teacher's experience gives insight into the students' strengths and weaknesses. It also helps the student adjust to new situations and material in a more continuous fashion. The Care Team is comprised of teachers, counselors and others who help determine adaptations, interventions and other solutions for troubled students before they near a failure point.