1st Edition

Scheduling Strategies for Middle Schools

    280 Pages
    by Eye On Education

    280 Pages
    by Eye On Education

    With over 150 sample schedules, this book shows how scheduling strategies can enhance your school's capacity to offer exploratory courses, interdisciplinary teaching teams, teacher-based guidance programs, and other programs and practices which are responsive to the needs of early adolescents.

    - The Critical Role of Scheduling in Fully Implementing Middle School Practices
    - Adapting Principles of Modular Scheduling for the Middle School
    - Alternate-Day Schedules in the Middle School
    Includes: 6 period formats, 7 period formats and 8 period formats
    - Adapting the 4/4 Schedule
    Includes: 2 teacher teams, 3 teacher teams, 4 teacher teams, and 6 teacher teams; and sliding lunch periods, 2 lunch periods, 3 lunch periods, and 4 lunch periods
    - The Five Block Middle School Schedule
    - Scheduling Exploratory and Elective Classes
    - Using Principles of Parallel Block Scheduling in Middle School to Reduce Class Size
    - Scheduling Extended Learning Time in the Middle School
    - Teaching in the Middle School Block Schedule
    Includes: Cooperative Learning, Seminars, Simulations, Using Technology, Imporving Lectures
    - References

    Biography

    Robert Lynn Canady, Michael D. Rettig