Béla Primary School – Complex Instruction Programme

The Complex Instruction Programme (Komplex Instrukciós Program in Hungarian) is an instructional approach that allows teachers to use cooperative groupwork to teach at a high level in academically diverse classrooms. The goal of this instruction is to provide academic access and success for all students in heterogeneous classrooms.

This method has three major components:

• Multiple ability curricula designed to foster the development of higher-order thinking skills through groupwork activities organised around a central concept or big idea. The tasks are open-ended, requiring students to work interdependently to solve problems.
• Using special instructional strategies, the teacher trains the students to use cooperative norms and specific roles to manage their own groups. 
• To ensure equal access to learning, teachers learn to recognise and treat status problems. In the Complex Instruction Programme, the more the students talk and work together, the more they learn.