Block Schedule Advantages

Adding just an extra ten minutes to each class, the new schedule would create the potential for students to have more homework time, lab time, learning time, and/or valuable free time to read for pleasure, relax with music, draw, etc. (Hadfield). Especially as students get older and more involved in extracurriculars and rigorous academic courses, the need for any spare moment to get assignments done, study, or even sleep increases. When this time is unavailable or extremely hard to get, students are more likely to fall asleep in class, miss school due to illness, misbehave, cheat, hand in incomplete assignments, or drop out altogether. The same is largely true for teachers. The more homework turned in by students, the more grading has to be done by teachers who are already exhausted from a long, often repetitive day of work. Therefore, it is important to emphasize the fact that this extra time should not be used to cram in larger quantities of learning standards or homework problems, but rather to enhance the quality of the already demanding school regulations that are in schools

4x4 block scheduling would be easier.. Teachers have to teach 3 classes for 90 minutes each and get a 90 minute planning period, which gives teachers time to prepare for the class. Teachers even have less students to teach with the 4x4 schedule which means less papers to grade. Also for students, 4x4 block scheduling is less overwhelming than A/B. 8 classes at a time is a lot to handle and definitely a lot to remember. Students

Have you ever wondered what the difference between traditional schooling and year-round education is? Maybe you didn’t know that there are more than one type of year-round education. A year-round school schedule can benefit educators, students, and even families. Year-round schooling is where the breaks in school are on a balanced schedule. Instead of having a three month summer break, there would be 60 days off and then the students would be back to school. If on a multi track schedule, teachers could use their off time to substitute at their school on a different track or at another school to get paid more. For students, the shorter breaks away from school increase retention rates, therefore reducing the amount of review necessary at

What is your least favorite class, the one you dread most? Picture yourself walking into that class, taking a seat, and watching the clock move slowly as you suffer through the next 90 minutes. Yes, you read that correctly. Imagine being stuck in your least favorite class for an hour and a half! This is a reality that many high school students experience every day. It is block scheduling. “Unlike traditional bell schedules - which typically comprise six to eight class periods per day, lasting anywhere from 45 to 60 minutes - block schedules contain just four daily class periods, with each one lasting an average of 90 minutes” (Block Scheduling in Schools 1). Although designed to increase student achievement, block schedules carry a number of disadvantages that make them an inadequate method for offering high school students a successful learning environment. Despite its few benefits, block scheduling works in direct conflict with most human attention spans, creates more scheduling problems than it solves, and lacks any solid evidence of improving student learning. In a world where educational practices come and go, block scheduling is a fad that should never have arrived in the first place.

Educational debates are a widespread in today’s society. Currently, one of the largest debates in education is the debate of whether schools should stay with the traditional school calendar or change to a year-round calendar. The main focus of the debate is centered around the idea that using the year-round calendar will provide kids with a more consistent learning schedule, which in turn creates better grades within the school and cuts back on summer learning loss. Year-round calendar and traditional calendar are far different. Traditional school calendar provides ten weeks of summer break and year-round calendar provides a shorter summer break but more frequent breaks throughout the year. The frequent breaks provide families the

When you first hear about the schedule and look at its outline, it sounds pretty solid. More breaks, longer breaks, and the main idea of getting done with core classes faster. For a student, hearing that sounds pretty good. For example if a student doesn’t lie one of the core classes then they would only have to put up with it for one-quarter.

At WHS, each teacher teaches five classes and has one duty period. With the block scheduling, every teacher has one day where they teach three classes and have one prep period. The other day, they have two classes, a duty, and a prep period. Last year, my mentor and I email the staff about their preference for the second semester duty. I took into account these preferences and their free periods when making the schedule. When I created the duty schedule with her last year, I found that odd days have more academic instruction and that there are significantly more teachers with lighter instructional loads on even days, causing scheduling difficulty for having a good number of teachers on hall duty on odd days.

Teacher individualize through the daily routine. For example small and large group’s the teacher will direct the children in different activities. Child – initiated any time throughout the day at greeting time children in Mrs. K and L class pick their job they will execute throughout the daily routine. The teacher will let the children also pick a song out the song book. During large group time the children are able to pick the finger plays and or music they will like to interact with. Children play throughout the daily routine but mostly children time children play mainly during worktime. Children were playing in the block

Merenbloom and Barbara A. Kalina pg 21-24), shows the hybrid block schedule gives students a variety of classes and not the same repetitive schedule every single day. I believe that it is important to have our core classes each day but do we really need to take classes such as business and animal science every single day? By rotating our elective classes on a block schedule this would again give us more options and a variety of classes to look forward to throughout the week. By having certain classes rotated, students would be able to take classes that will benefit us and our education. 7/7 sophomores in English II at Well- Nap High school were unable to take certain classes this year and were thrown into unneeded classes due to schedule

Have you ever wanted more time? Have you ever wanted to go to your lockers after every class? Have you ever forgotten anything because you don't have enough time in class? THen you agree with us to change th 8th grade schedule to match it with the rest of FCHS. Think about all the things that would be better, there will be no more sore ankles, more time in class to learn, best of all lockers after every class. The 8th grade schedule will not prepare us for the later years in high school, because we can't go to lockers after every other class. We don't have a lot of time between classes and walking a lot. Finally we don't have enough time in class.

Even though there might be several variations of block scheduling in schools, students who are involved with block scheduling see higher grades, better test results, and an overall better understanding of the material presented. Many school districts have found it challenging to make it through a traditional 6 to 8 periods per day. They claim the system just does not live up to it’s expectations. Many educators agree that there is hardly any time for students’ core classes along with electives. While other schools adapt their schedules, the majority of schools in The United States have adopted block scheduling.

After a schedule change, students and teachers have been having controversy about a four-period and eight-period school day. After two years of the new schedule, although calmed down somewhat, the controversy continues. An eight-period school day (traditional schedule) seems to be far outweighed by a four-period school day (block schedule). A four-period school day provides academic, educational, and emotional benefits when compared to an eight-period school day.

It is October 15th. Normally, students would be at school, working for hours on end at math, communication arts, and science. But this year is different. This year your school has now entered into the year-round calendar system. At home, you can enjoy the season of fall with pumpkins, Halloween, and beautiful weather. The idea of year round school has most commonly been pushed aside because of the misconception that it is too much school, or an on-going cycle of learning. However, those who declare this, do not understand the year-round school concept. Year-round school provides the same number of days as the traditional calendar. The difference, which will change our society and the achievement rate of our students in the future, is that the days are reordered into intersessions. The mechanisms of year round school include students attending school for a nine week period, then following this is a three week break. This rotation occurs year-round with a slightly longer summer break. Consequently, Though many people agree with keeping tradition with the popular school calendar, new evidence and testimony proves that year-round school provides the better avenue because the world is evolving, it benefits low income students, and intersessions are more effective than summer break.

One main reason I would like the school to remove X-Block is because it's not a graded class so we don't have to participate. For example, you have homework or a project going on for one of those classes and you wouldn't have to do anything because it's not a graded assignment. It can lead to having no effect on your grades or GPA. If we have X-Block teachers should make the class more productive with activities. In my advisory class we don't ever have projects or any kind of homework and students are

Good afternoon students and teachers, thank you for coming today. I am here to talk about our schedules. I feel as though we don't have enough time in our classes and that we have too many classes a day. with the shorter class periods us, students have a harder time understanding the lessons being taught . Many students including me, have been overly stressed as we are trying to balance our class work/ homework with other extracurricular activities. I feel that with more class time students would be able to finish their work faster and not have to stress about it after school. There are schools that have tried switching to this new 4 block schedule and they have said that it's been successful. This new system would benefit the students so