Scheduling Strategies for Middle Schools

Auteur
Robert Lynn Canady, Michael D. Rettig

Résumé
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.

Contenu
Preface, 1 The Critical Role of Scheduling in Fully Implementing Middle School Practices, 2 Adapting Principles of Modular Scheduling for the Middle School, 3 Alternate-Day Schedules in the Middle School, 4 The Four-Block Schedule: Adapting the 4/4 High School Block Schedule for middle Schools, 5 The Five-Block Middle School Schedule, 6 Scheduling Exploratory and Elective Classes in the Middle School: Expanding the Possibilities, 7 Using Principles of Parallel Block Scheduling in Middle School to Reduce Class Size, 8 Scheduling Extended Learning Time in the Middle School, 9 Teaching in the Middle School Block Schedule, References