From: Denise Dreyer (dreyerd@pacbell.net)
Date: Sun Sep 12 1999 - 11:58:43 PDT
Message-ID: <37DBF7E3.1E4AD0E7@pacbell.net> Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 10:58:43 -0800 From: Denise Dreyer <dreyerd@pacbell.net> Subject: Re: pinhole block scheduling
I'm at a high school (not a middle school) but we have a modified block
schedule. We have two days of blocks (we meet with half of our classes
each day) and the other three days are "regular" (we see all six periods each
day.) This was a good compromise. It allows for a lab once a week and
shorter
activities the rest of the week. I teach math and computers and really like
the
variety of this schedule. There was concern about it before we implemented
but our staff and student survey results are pretty positive now. We had two
two-week trial periods the year before we implemented t. That helped get the
bugs
out. We're now in our second or third year. Good luck!
Denise Dreyer
Mills High School
Millbrae, CA
Mike Schulist wrote:
> I teach eighth grade science at Miller Creek Middle School in San Rafael,
> and we currently have a 45 minute period length. This is too short for
> science labs, and the science department is pushing to move to block
> scheduling. Other departments at my school are resisting the idea however.
> Does anyone have any experiences in schools that use block scheduling I
> could share with the faculty? I'd like to know which middle schools use
> block scheduling so we can have models to go by. The clincher is to find
> foreign language and math teachers who enjoy block scheduling. Please let
> me know what your middle school block scheduling experience are! Thank
> you.
> Mike Schulist
>
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