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At the Incarnate Word High School San Antonio, Texas classes run on a modular schedule. Each day is broken down into 17 time-periods called "mods." Mods are 20 minutes long, except the lunch mods, which are 26 minutes. The schedule is on a two-week cycle. There are no bells between mods, and students are responsible for arriving to classes on time.
Block scheduling. Block scheduling or blocking is a type of academic scheduling used in some schools in the American K-12 system, in which students have fewer but longer classes per day than in a traditional academic schedule. It is more common in middle and high schools than in primary schools. In one form of block scheduling, a single class ...
Maker education (a term coined by Dale Dougherty in 2013) [1] closely associated with STEM learning, is an approach to problem-based and project-based learning that relies upon hands-on, often collaborative, learning experiences as a method for solving authentic problems. People who participate in making often call themselves "makers" [2] of ...
2. A schedule with one relatively short period after another can create a hectic, assembly-line environment. 3. A schedule that releases hundreds or thousands of adolescents into hallways six, seven, or eight times each school day for four or five minutes or noise and chaotic movement can exacerbate discipline problems. 4.
Fager, Jennifer Scheduling Alternatives: Options for Student Success. By Request Series. Northwest Regional Educational Lab., Portland, OR. Office of Educational Research and Improvement (ED), Washington, DC. 1997-02-00. 48p. RJ96006501. Information Analyses (070) Reports Descriptive (141) MF01/PCO2 Plus Postage.
On Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays, school is in session from 8:00-3:20. On Wednesdays and Fridays, the classes run from 8:00-2:40. Another schedule has 7 period days on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Fridays for 55 minutes. On Wednesdays, periods 1,3, and 5 meet for 95 minutes. On Thursdays, periods 2, 4, and 6 meet for 95 minutes and there is a 95 ...
This high school implemented different class schedules; a 4x4 block schedule, A/B block schedule, a mixed block and traditional period day, or traditional period schedule. The main research question was focused on students' state standardized end-of-course test scores performance (N = 8,972) between students instructed using 4 different class ...
In the case of school administration, the school principal acts in the agentic role. For Bandura (2001), the agent is the one who acts intentionally to make things happen on behalf of others. This certainly resonates with the work life of school principals. It is well established in research that the school principal plays the role of agent