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Imbimbo, Josephine; Gilkes, Alwyn – New Visions for Public Schools, 2009
This publication focuses on block scheduling. Alternative scheduling models--usually called "block scheduling" because they involve blocks of time for student learning--restructure the school day. Schools may adopt block scheduling to create more productive and personal relationships among teachers and students, to design challenging…
Descriptors: Block Scheduling, Scheduling, Teacher Student Relationship, Educational Environment
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Wronkovich, Michael – American Secondary Education, 1998
Examines some evidence presented for and against block scheduling and makes recommendations based on these observations. Existing empirical evidence is ambivalent regarding academic benefits, particularly for mathematics achievement. Alternative scheduling seems right for some curricular areas and wrong for others. Blocking some classes and not…
Descriptors: Block Scheduling, Curriculum Design, Educational Benefits, Educational Psychology
Adams, Don C.; Salvaterra, Mary E. – 1997
Block scheduling and intensive or extended-time scheduling have been appearing in high schools across the United States. This guidebook is designed to help each school find the best route to achieve this organizational change. The book's premise is that structural change in schools is not sufficient to create meaningful educational improvement.…
Descriptors: Block Scheduling, Curriculum Design, Educational Planning, High Schools
Davis-Wiley, Patricia; Cozart, Angela – 1996
The block schedule is fast becoming the new instructional delivery format of choice for the 1990s in American secondary schools. This paper presents findings of a study that examined the effects of changing from a six-period day to a four-block schedule on two large high schools in Knox County, Tennessee. Part I of the study examined the…
Descriptors: Block Scheduling, Curriculum Design, High Schools, Parent Attitudes
Wiley, W. Deane; Bishop, Lloyd K. – 1968
Although the master schedule is the foundation of the secondary school, very few administrators have had any background in its construction. Scheduling is a complex task even for the traditional equal-time-for-each-subject scheduling. Scheduling should take into account the methodology and learning process of the school. The prime scheduling…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Educational Change, Educational Facilities, Flexible Scheduling