In times of shrinking enrollments, mixing students of different study years is sometimes necessay. But here are reasons to specially handle the entry level students.
[1 Y. Moorman] I have been teaching mixed-level Japanese classes over 30 years and every year the combinations change, yet I adamantly fight to keep the first year as one class...
I keep all the level on the same theme/topic at the same time... [this] keeps
me sane; not using different topics at the same time in the one classroom.
[2 E. Sullivan] My experience is keep your 1's by themselves! They are the most needy
and since they can't write for a while it is hard to give them independent work.
I had a 2/4 split three years ago, and even though it was crazy, I could still give
the 2's writing work or pair work while I taught the 4's and vice versa.
Also, the older kids can do more reading and writing as well as projects...
Also, it could hurt your program if it falls apart at the 1 level and they feel lost.
What is the number cut off to make a section? Ours is 20 to make a class.
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