Teaching in multi-grade classes has become a challenge that teachers have to contend with. The Committee on Rural Education highlighted multi-grade as a specific challenge in rural schools, requiring special skills and more training on the part of the educator .
Challenges faced by the teachers while teaching in a multi- grade classes;
Requires more preparation of curriculum learning materials.
Requires more careful study of learner's developmental characteristics across the age levels involved in the class, approaches and strategies that are effective and variable within a multi-grade class.
More investment in organization of the classroom as learning environment.
Unpreparedness in teaching multigrade
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A class is more challenging to teach in the event that the learners are more diverse. Split grades provide the teacher more control over the student body's age, ability, and curriculum.
The experience of stress
Every teacher experience stress due to the workloads and in handling students. If you are a multi grade teacher experiencing stress will really occur anytime, having different level of students inside a classroom is very stressful because you need to teach them simultaneously.
A multi grade classroom exist because of the scarcity of facilities, buildings, staff, learning resources and teachers, specially in community where the government privileges cannot reach
Danger in going to stations
Workload
Lack of stakeholders' support
How to overcome the Challenges in Multi- Grade Teaching?
There are some coping strategies in experiencing challenges in multigrade teaching, it includes:
Having Time management
Developing Plans
Doing Research
Pray
Challenges for the Learners
Requires more discipline, greater concentration and more focus in order to benefit from effective strategies.
Less reliance on direct supervision by teacher
Requires more initiative and resourceful to function effectively.
May receive less individual attention from a less experienced teacher
