Block Scheduling
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Seven classes a day, five days a week, every day the same schedule; Rockhurst High School. This schedule presents conflict among teachers and students. This is a setback because teachers do not have enough time to teach their whole lesson while students find it difficult to spend one-on-one time learning with teachers.
This complex dilemma has a potentially simple solution; block scheduling. Schools throughout the Unites States are adopting block scheduling in dramatically increasing numbers. With this alternative schedule, rather than meeting every day for fifty-five minutes, students and teachers meet every-other-day for extended time periods.
When students are in up to seven class periods daily, the instruction can become fragmented, and the pace is grueling. In contrast, when students are given the opportunity for longer class periods, there is more time to think and engage in active learning. With one moderately short class period after another, it is much easier to become overwhelmed. When hundreds of students are given five minute breaks up to seven times a day, it becomes more difficult for both teachers and administrators to control discipline problems...