Advice on teaching a split grade class?
Hello teachers!
This is my first year teaching a split level class - I am teaching a grade 5/6 split class and I am in BC. I have taught both these grades separately and have only taught intermediate grades in my 6 years of teaching (in our small town this includes grades 4, 5, 6, and 7). I did one split class in my final practicum in school years ago which was early elementary grades - I remember some of the general methods of teaching a split but it will be very different with higher grades.
I have been focusing a lot on how to teach math, teaching a core lesson to the whole class for topics that are in both curriculums and then going into the more difficult tasks for the higher grade.
I am looking for advice on teaching a split class in general, as well as teaching Language Arts, and other subjects in the most effective way.
Any advice or tips would be very helpful! I was put into this grade level very last minute. School starts in a week and I had been planning on teaching a straight grade 6 class only so I am not nearly as prepared as I would like to be.
Thanks in advance!