Chaika, Glori. (2009). Is Year-Round Schooling the Answer?. Education World. Retrieved December 1, 2016, from http://www.educationworld.com/a_admin/admin/admin137.shtml The article discusses the idea of year-round schooling and if it does indeed provide an answer to enhancing students learning in school. Just this year, more than two million students in about three thousand schools attend year-round schools. The article discusses the misconceptions of year-round schooling when parents, teachers, or students assume that it means students stay in school all year without break. When in most cases, students spend the same amount of time in school when compared to traditional one track schools. Instead of a three-month vacation though, the year-round
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Starting by stating how more than three thousand K-12 schools around the country follow some type of a year-round schooling calendar. The author also states that a key idea to remember is that year-round schooling is not the same as expanded learning time, which means that the school days or school year becomes longer. Rather that many, if not all, year-round schools reorganize the standard one-hundred-and-eighty-day school year schedule so that it works throughout the year in a way students are still able to learn and still have time for themselves. Some advantages within a year-round schooling calendar rid students of possible summer “learning loss”, reducing teacher and student burnout, and being organized to help working parents manage their schedules. Year-round schedules can help to enrich a student’s experiences and opportunities by allowing them to explore multiple courses that they may not have had extended time to delve into. Or to explore in depth brand new topics they had interest in but could not learn more about in their “normal” school schedule. Some disadvantages that come up with the idea of year-round schooling is that there can be added costs to school districts for utilities in buildings, payment for staff and teachers, and lack of materials or space for children’s learning. Year-round schooling can also come to take away from a student’s time to experience and explore anything outside of the classroom, and can come to reduce a teacher’s time to receive professional development hours and
Starting by stating how more than three thousand K-12 schools around the country follow some type of a year-round schooling calendar. The author also states that a key idea to remember is that year-round schooling is not the same as expanded learning time, which means that the school days or school year becomes longer. Rather that many, if not all, year-round schools reorganize the standard one-hundred-and-eighty-day school year schedule so that it works throughout the year in a way students are still able to learn and still have time for themselves. Some advantages within a year-round schooling calendar rid students of possible summer “learning loss”, reducing teacher and student burnout, and being organized to help working parents manage their schedules. Year-round schedules can help to enrich a student’s experiences and opportunities by allowing them to explore multiple courses that they may not have had extended time to delve into. Or to explore in depth brand new topics they had interest in but could not learn more about in their “normal” school schedule. Some disadvantages that come up with the idea of year-round schooling is that there can be added costs to school districts for utilities in buildings, payment for staff and teachers, and lack of materials or space for children’s learning. Year-round schooling can also come to take away from a student’s time to experience and explore anything outside of the classroom, and can come to reduce a teacher’s time to receive professional development hours and