School Days

At Episcopal Day School, we believe in teaching our students in a way different to the traditional classroom. Giving them more hands on experiences, we teach them skills to aid in their gaining of knowledge and truth. We also believe in teaching our students through God. We strive to give them all the skills necessary for whatever life tries to throw at them. This year we decided to build a high school to keep the success and knowledge of Episcopal Day School alive. Our High School will have all…

Innovation Evaluation at RUSM Day School Change is inevitable in education. Constant innovations to improve teaching and learning are expected. Assessment of innovation is essential in ensuring that teaching practices are effective and student learning and performance is inline with intending learning outcomes. Formative and summative evaluations are tools that can gauge the success of an innovated change. Formative evaluation can be a guide for improvement during implementation, whereas…

The typical school week is five days for most school systems in the United States, but perhaps there is another option. Four-day school weeks may be the next big thing. Some schools today go over in time making a four-day week possible. Schools that have switched to hours instead of days no longer have to make up for days missed because the school may schedule excess hours above the minimum (Rivera). While students may not use the day off productively, schools should adopt a four day week…

shorter days in school. Why? There are three reasons on why there should be. Starting off if you have younger siblings then will be able to be home before they get home, you will be able to do your homework, then you will be able to hang with your friends longer, and you will be able to either work earlier shifts or be able to get paid more money. As a result, these three reasons will explain why we need to have shorter days in school. The first reason why we need to have shorter days in…

“Schools that operate on a four-day schedule typically shorten the school week by eliminating either Monday or Friday and add more time to each day to provide the same number of instructional hours as a traditional five-day week” (“Four-Day School Week–Evidence Blast,” 2013, par. 2). My first thought on a four-day school week is that it cannot happen in urban areas as most families are dual income and so parents are unable to take off one day per week to care for their children. For one…

Autumn rolls in and the adverts of backpack and pencil sales crop up. The first day of school is upon every student before they know it. New and familiar faces accompanied by awkward greetings and reminiscent small talk. One by one the weeks pass by and “BAM” the hectic preparations for testing has everyone to their knees. Teachers are cramming every ounce of knowledge possible before the big day while students juggled their studies and their own personal lives. The test finally passes and the…

Korean schools - Grrl Traveler 2010, Korean high schools around the globe have a 16 hour school day. Parents, guardians, educators and several other people believe that having a long school day can benefit a student 's education and increase academic achievement. However, I believe that constantly doing work for a major period of time, results in many negative impacts. Coming back to the original statement, I believe that having a 16 hour school day creates many negative impacts on the school,…

frying, school buses honking, and my Mom screaming “ Iseroni get down here you have school today.” Then I said to myself, “ Oh god first day of school at a new school this is going to be rough”. I called up my friend checkers to relieve the pain and stress going threw my body. He wasn't answering so then I heard a loud thud it was my dad stompin to my door yelling at me to get up. Instead of getting up I rolled off my bed and the day has started what wonders could happen throughout the day. So…

High school is a struggle for everyone, that is no lie, but what is it for? Walking through the doors and dealing with the crowded hallways and the drama for a piece of paper? To most people that is all high school is for them. Going to school for thirteen years to be able to walk across the stage to get their diploma, it is time. For some of us, high school was a blast and for others, it was a struggle just trying to graduate. But no matter who you were, being able to get dressed up and walk…

Some people may like the idea of longer school days but I believe otherwise. Some people may say that longer school days would cause kids to get better grades because they have more time to work in class, but in reality, longer school day would give kids LESS time to work at places other than school, thus giving them even more bad grades then they had before. I disagree with the idea that longer school days are better than normal school days because students will have less time for themselves,…