Full Description
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.
Contents
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
