Sentences with phrase «block scheduling of classes»

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.

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But that's exactly what a bunch of faculty and students asked for — blocks of time each week when no classes were scheduled so that a variety of other things could happen on campus without anyone having to miss out.

If a student misses a sequence of classes in a blocked schedule, that student can find it very difficult to catch up with the content and to make up assignments, said Jeff Lindsay, a parent activist, in The Case Against Block Scheduling.

Block scheduling is a hot topic in school reform these days, with a growing number of high schools replacing the traditional setup of six or seven 45 - minute classes a day with fewer classes that last longer.

Instead, secondary schools need to develop a continuum of literacy instruction to combat the debilitating fragmentation of block schedules; that is, teachers of content classes from every subject need to use similar classroom approaches so that struggling students can utilize strategies learned in supplementary classes throughout the whole school day.

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.

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

Currently operating with an eight - period block schedule, otherwise known as a 4 - by - 4 schedule, the idea to change the schedule to increase the number of classes students attend each day is to help students with more opportunities to learn, said Assistant Superintendent for Secondary Education Richard Holmes.

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