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Download full textSharp, Robert – Pathways: The Ontario Journal of Outdoor Education, 2011
About 20 years ago, a number of Yukon schools took a different approach to outdoor education and outdoor pursuits. During the 1970s and 1980s, most Yukon high schools and junior high schools offered a course called Outdoor Education. These courses fit into the conventional blocks in a school timetable. Outdoor activities longer than these blocks…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adventure Education, Educational Change, Secondary Education
Reid, William M. – School Administrator, 1996
Based on his experience with the Copernican block scheduling plan used in British Columbia secondary schools, a principal identifies administrative challenges (abuse of tutorial time, uneven distribution of teacher-preparation time, teacher fatigue, pedagogical changes, and unrealistic expectations) and suggests ways to address them. Involving…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Block Scheduling, Foreign Countries, Guidelines
Ferguson, Roy – 2002
This document examines a retrospective study that compares the academic performance of students who entered the child and youth care degree programs with block transfer credit at two institutions in British Columbia with non-block students at the same institutions. The conclusions of the study were reached by examining GPA entry and exit scores…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Child Care, Community Colleges, Flexible Scheduling
Sigurdson, Sol E., Ed.; And Others – 1981
This manual illustrates an interdisciplinary team approach to teaching four academic subjects for seventh grade students. Eight interdisciplinary units are presented that were developed by teachers around two or more of the following subject areas: language arts, social studies, science, and mathematics. An introduction to the Block Plan, as it…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Curriculum Development, Experimental Programs, Flexible Scheduling
Sigurdson, Sol E. – 1981
The effectiveness of the Block Plan, developed and implemented by the seventh grade students at Edith Rogers Junior High School in Edmonton, Alberta (Canada) was investigated. The Block Plan uses the concept of a pair of teachers assigned to two classes of students for the homeroom period plus a pair of teachers assigned for each of four academic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Attendance, Curriculum Development
Strugnell, William – Education Canada, 1982
Describes the art education program in Moncton, New Brunswick (Canada) from elementary school through senior high, emphasizing art as a serious discipline that demands a coherent structure, definite objectives, sequential learning skills, reasonable expectations of both product and process, a regular place in the timetable, and trained teachers…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Education, Art Teachers, Classroom Environment
