What is the Rainbow Team?

     Miss Kashuba, Mr, Gardner, Ms.Boyer and their students make up the Rainbow Team. The Rainbow Team is a 2 year multi-age program. The children enter 2nd grade with Ms.Boyer as their homeroom teach and the next year the class automatically moves to Mr. Garnder’s 3rd grade.

     Some Advantages of multi-age education are:
     1)Children are expected and encouraged to learn at different levels and rates.
     2)Multi-age instruction promotes cooperative learning. Older children gain self-esteem by acting as role models for younger learner. Younger learners benefit from exposure to “experienced” students.

     Providing appropriate instruction for all of the students in a multi-age learning environment can be and is very challenging and time consuming. One way for us to meet these challenges and benefit out students is to team teach. Some of the benefits of team teaching are:
     1)We work together and share our tasks.
     2)We use our individual strengths and talents to provide a quality program.
     3)We are able to give the students more individualized attention and help.
     4)We are able to group and regroup the children to better meet their needs.

     The Rainbow Team has been in existence since 1994.  We enjoy “Learning and Growing Together!"!”

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