Sentences with phrase «block schedule»

A practical hurdle also stands in the way of block scheduling in some school districts.

The solution they came up with was a hybrid - block schedule in which each of those subjects is taught in 60 - minute periods for the full school year.

Last year I began working at a school with block scheduling, which offered me 100 - minute math classes, four days a week.

Education associations and school - reform networks report a steady flow of inquiries about block scheduling, and many are planning workshops and publishing articles in response.

However, many teachers who have switched to block or modified block schedule swear by it.

He has presented and written extensively about middle school improvement including flexible block scheduling, collaboration, and experiential education.

But when a student misses one day of classes under block scheduling, the student misses the equivalent of two days of instruction under the traditional system.

The school day should allow for more in - depth project work beyond the 45 - minute period, including block scheduling of classes two hours or longer.

Advocates of block scheduling say most forgetting happens in the first few weeks after a course is taken.

Our school has block scheduling where each class is 90 minutes long.

Even differences in scheduling (such as block scheduling versus traditional) can pose difficulties.

Bathroom breaks are part of every informal block schedule.

Students with block schedules typically have more credits at the end of four years than those with traditional schedules.

If block scheduling is to succeed anywhere, teachers must have multiple opportunities to develop active teaching styles in their various disciplines.

By the end of 1995, researchers had begun to strongly advocate that schools needed at least three to five years of experience with block scheduling before studies could accurately judge their effectiveness.

Were students who lacked at least one year of experience with block scheduling eliminated from the study?

Once advocates and opponents of block scheduling become entrenched, compromise between the groups can be difficult.

The instructional model allows students to concentrate only on the credit portfolio they need for graduation through a non-traditional block schedule.

While teachers talked about block schedules, students were worried about safety.

Under block scheduling, will a substitute teacher be qualified to teach 90 - minute periods of, for example, physics?

What is less abundant is hard data relative to the effect of block scheduling on student achievement.

Flexible block scheduling provides class choices toward graduation requirements while accounting for students» interests and goals.

Modified block scheduling allows students to take seven classes instead of the traditional six, allowing more flexibility and options and selecting courses.

Schools implement block schedules so students can spend more time going deeper into subject areas; middle schools organize themselves into houses so teachers and students can develop closer relationships; districts buy laptop carts so students can get a more engaging and personalized experience.

* This story was originally published in the first quarter issue of the Eagle Eye * On Nov. 16, 2016, 80 percent of teachers at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School voted to implement the 4X4 A / B block schedule for the 2017 - 2018 and 2018 - 2019 school years.

Schools implement block schedules so students can spend more time going deeper into subject areas; middle schools organize themselves into houses so -LSB-...]

Schools throughout the United States are adopting block scheduling in dramatically increasing numbers.

High - school students on blocked schedules (10th and 11th graders) had higher GPAs than did junior - high students (8th and 9th graders).

I teach block schedule, which means that the class meets every other day; my students needed time in each class session to review and remember details of the plot that took place in our reading the day before.

But does block scheduling help students learn more?

(See Education Policy Analysis Archives (EPAA), 2/8/99 «Effects of a 4 x 4 Junior High School Block Scheduling Program.»)

«But you can put block scheduling into [effect].»

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On Nov. 16, 2016, 80 percent of teachers at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School voted to implement the 4X4 A / B block schedule for the 2017 - 2018 and 2018 - 2019 school years.

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Gunn will be leaving behind its more traditional schedule — five or six classes that meet for almost an hour each day — to a new 75 - minute rotating block schedule this fall.

Are you for or against block scheduling?

«You can't put into policy that all people will believe that all children can learn, but you can put block scheduling into [effect].»

An example of a 90 - minute reading instruction block schedule is provided at the website Reading Rockets.

An extended - day block schedule means students spend 200 minutes daily in an English, language arts, and social studies block; 100 minutes daily in a math and science block; and 120 minutes in the Learning Lab where students learn much of their basic skills through intelligent adaptive software.

Wasson is one of a growing number of high schools adopting so - called block schedules.

Lessons can also be combined for use in an extended, 90 - minute block schedule.

(See Block Scheduling Research, Center for Applied Research and Educational Improvement, January 1995.)

Consider block schedules, trimesters or a later start to the school day.

The hybrid - block schedule significantly increased instructional time for those [tested] subjects from 8,100 minutes to 10,800 minutes per year, explained Principal Frank Hagen.

«The variability of reported successes or failures of block scheduling depends on two different, but frequently interacting, sets of variables — methodological variables and school culture / teacher variables,» Brian Cobb told Education World.

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