The preparation of teachers for multigrade teaching

Teaching and Teacher Education

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 501-514

  Mulryan Kyne, Catherine ^a  

^a DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Effective teaching; Multigrade classes; Multigrade teaching; Rural education; Teacher education for multigrade; Teacher education programmes

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947433675     PISSN: 0742051X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tate.2006.12.003     Document Type: Article

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