I have often thought that one-room schools were a good way of doing things. I met a 94 year old one room school teacher and she said she never had any problems teaching mixed ages and managing all the different lessons. It really sounded like a good way to go. (She also used phonics and said ALL her children learned to read well.)
There is an article by Andrew Pudewa which he calls “Mixed-Age Classrooms” that I recently read, I think you all will find interesting–he has seen several examples of one-room schools today that work: https://www.excellenceinwriting.com/?q=article-list
We have a very small mixed age classroom (we homeschool), but if we didn’t move so often (5 times in the last 6 six years) or need the flexibility of homeschooling and had an opportunity to send our children to a local one-room school, I would be very interested! I also wouldn’t mind teaching in one, it sounds much more interesting than teaching in today’s type of classrooms.
