Block scheduling vs 7 period day

Curiosisity
Sun, 24 Aug 2008 12:12:18 +0000

My school uses a nice mix. Monday, Tuesday and Friday you have all your classes, which are each 50 minutes long. Wednesday and Thursday you only have half your classes, but each one is an hour and a half. That way, you can do longer labs and in-depth activities on your block days, but you also get to meet with your teacher four days a week.

I think it’s ideal. I don’t know how I would feel about block periods all the time; whereas some teachers have great block periods, in other classes they don’t really know what to do with the time. And certain subjects lend themselves more to prolonged activities, some don’t. For example, if you’re in your second year of Spanish it’s hard to find the patience to practice past tense conjugation and po-dunk little vocab activities for so long.