Essay On Block Scheduling

Block scheduling is important for not only the students, but the teachers. Teachers are able to have time for individualized instruction and interaction with students because they see fewer during the day. For curriculum purposes, teachers can incorporate longer cooperative learning activities to be completed in one class period. Teachers have extended time for planning and can potentially have a planning period daily instead of being told designated dates and times. With their planning periods, they are given less students to prepare for and more time to learn active instructional strategies that accommodate each student. On the contrary, all of the information taught in a semester course has to be taught in one quarter for the 4 X 4 block format. For students, they have more time to delve deep into the content instead of an overload of information. Unfortunately, advanced placement students are not allotted the necessary time needed to prepare for the exam at the end of the years. Therefore, if a student misses a …show more content…
Block scheduling has altered the way teachers work. The format provides them with more time on many of their instructional objectives and the ability to experiment with different teaching strategies to present those objectives. These teachers also reported feeling less stress (Williams, R. B., & Dunn, S. E., 2008). Teachers appreciate the increase amount of rigor in course, course offerings, and time for in-depth study that the 4 X 4 block schedule provides. Teachers in the 4 X 4 block scheduling were compared to teachers in a traditional schedule, the classroom assessment techniques by 4 X 4 teachers were more developed than teachers in a traditional scheduling environment (Lewis, C. W., Dugan, J. J., Winokur, M. A., & Cobb, R. B., 2005). It is proven that when given time, students and teachers can create effective and reflective