ASCD and Edutopia on Innovative teaching method that uses arts, and looping to improve student achievement

Innovative teaching method uses arts, looping to improve achievement

A California educator is praising a teaching method that integrates the arts into lessons and allows students to learn at their own pace. The practice, known as the Waldorf methods, lets students connect poems and songs to numbers and letters, and teachers alternate monthly between teaching about numbers and teaching about letters -- a practice designed to boost students' long-term memory. Teachers also move with their students as they advance through grades, a practice called looping.

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