Planning at the service of learning


The article describes the creation and development of an educational research group focused on multigrade teaching in rural schools of Uruguay. The group was established in 2007 and is integrated by rural teachers interested in addressing the planification and teaching challenges in multigrade classrooms. The base of the investigation is that multigrade groups' work is innovative and seeks to dissolve the
dissociation between planning and action in the classroom.


The team developed a toolbox to improve teaching in multigrade classrooms. In this toolbox we can find a “field diary” used to register and reflect about planification, it also has a didactic itinerary to organize didactic tasks in the classroom in an integrative way. This methodology potentiated learning by changing the organizational perspective of work in the classroom, going from planning by grades to integrated planning.


The study was divided in three stages: the construction of research agreements and investigator role, the delimitation of the research object and the elaboration of observation and record instruments and the qualitative and quantitative approaches were applied at different stages of the process.


The article concludes that the research got results in the improvement of teaching in multigrade classrooms. The use of the didactic itinerary and the field diary improved the levels of learning in children and favored the circulation of knowledge and kids' autonomy in the learning process. Planning based on the didactic itinerary allowed greater flexibility and adaptation to children's needs, while encouraging teacher reflection. 

In conclusion, the results of this research goes beyond teaching in rural classrooms and suggests that the methodology and findings are applicable to any classroom, which underlines the relevance of the research work in the educational context.


Why did you find it interesting? Nos pareció interesante porque se relaciona con la práctica rural que estamos cursando y la planificación multigrado. Hemos notado que pueden surgir algunas problemáticas en este tipo de planificación y en este artículo se presenta un itinerario y una caja de herramientas para poder implementar en este tipo de planificaciones


Created by: Camila Domínguez, Tomás Rodríguez y Lia Silvera.
Source: file:///C:/Users/50525385/Downloads/Revista_104-15.pdf 

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