Scheduling Strategies for Middle Schools

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ISBN: 9781883001674 | 1883001676
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Copyright: 1/1/2000

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With over 150 sample schedules, this book shows how scheduling strategies can enhance your school's capacity to offer exploratory courses, interdisciplinary teaching teams, teacher-based guidance programs, and other programs and practices which are responsive to the needs of early adolescents.

About the Authors

Preface

xvii

The Critical Role of Scheduling in Fully Implementing Middle School Practices

(18)

Background of Middle-Level Schooling

(3)

Bridging the Gap Between Belief and Practice: The Role of Scheduling in Implementing Exemplary Middle Schools

(2)

Revisiting Flexible Scheduling in Middle School: Exploring Eight Questions

(8)

Scheduling Design Considerations

(4)

Adapting Principles of Modular Scheduling For the Middle School

(24)

Creating a Modular Schedule

(11)

Place Lunch Periods

(2)

Place Teacher Planning Blocks

(1)

Place the ``Triple E'' Periods

(2)

Create a Team Core Time Schedule

(6)

A Case Study

(11)

Framing the Problems

(1)

Consensus for Change

(1)

Creating ``Pure'' Teams

(3)

Designing the Master Schedule

(4)

Implementation Issues

(1)

Progress Update

(2)

Alternate-Day Schedules in the Middle School

(38)

Basic Forms of the Alternate-Day Schedule

(4)

Six-Period Format

(1)

Seven-Period Format

(2)

Eight-Period Format

(1)

Typical High School Modifications of the Basic Alternate-Day Block Schedule

(2)

The Activity/Seminar Block

(1)

The Two-Day Block

(1)

The Four-Day Block

(1)

Benefits of the Alternate-Day Block Schedule

(2)

Adapting the Alternate-Day Block Schedule for Middle Schools: Master Schedule I

(8)

Grade Six Time Schedule

(2)

``Triple E'' or ``Tower'' Period

(1)

Grade Seven Time Schedule

(1)

Grade Eight Time Schedule

(1)

Physical Education and Exploratory Schedule

(1)

Alternate-Day Team Schedules

(1)

Grade Six A/B Schedule

(4)

Grade Seven A/B Schedule

(1)

Grade Eight A/B Schedule

(1)

Alternate-Day Master Schedule II

(6)

Grade-Level Time Schedules

(1)

PE and Exploratory Schedules

(5)

Four Lunch Periods

(1)

Variations on the Alternate-Day Theme: Two Interesting Examples

(16)

The Four-Block Schedule: Adapting the 4/4 High School Block Schedule for Middle Schools

(42)

The Basic Four-Block Schedule

(5)

Two-Teacher Team

(2)

Three-Teacher Team

(1)

Four-Teacher Team

(1)

Six-Teacher Team

(1)

The Basic Master Four-Block Schedule

(7)

Benefits to Students

(2)

Benefits to Teachers

(2)

Adapting the Four-Block Schedule

(23)

Adapting for Multiple Lunch Periods

(1)

Sliding Lunch Schedule

(2)

Two Lunch Periods

(1)

Three Lunch Periods

(5)

Four Lunch Periods

101

(3)

Adapting for Social Studies and Science Instruction

104

(3)

Adapting for Foreign Language Instruction

107

(2)

Foreign Language as a Choice in the Encore Block

109

(1)

Foreign Language in Place of Half of the English Language Block

109

(1)

Foreign Language in Place of Half of the Mathematics Block

109

(2)

Foreign Language Off Team in Place of Half of the Mathematics Block

111

(1)

Foreign Language in Place of One-Fourth of the Language Arts Block and One-Fourth of the Mathematics Block

111

(5)

Foreign Language by Adding the Tower of EEE Period

116

(1)

Adapting the Four-Block Schedule to Accommodate a Separate Reading Class

116

(7)

All Core Teachers Instruct Reading

116

(3)

Specialist Teaches Reading

119

(1)

Conclusion

119

(4)

The Five-Block Middle School Schedule

123

(14)

Scheduling Exploratory and Elective Classes in the Middle School: Expanding the Possibilities

137

(30)

One Period Allocated for Encore

139

(8)

Two Periods Allocated for Encore

147

(14)

Scheduling Itinerant Elective Teachers

156

(3)

Scheduling Electives in All Four Blocks

159

(2)

Three Periods Allocated for Encore

161

(4)

Guidelines for Choosing a Schedule

165

(2)

Using Principles of Parallel Block Scheduling in Middle School to Reduce Class Size

167

(28)

Parallel Block Scheduling

168

(1)

The Master Schedule

169

(12)

Encore (PE/Exploratory/Elective) and Lunch/Recess

170

(1)

Sample Team Parallel Block Schedule with Language Arts and Mathematics Extensions

170

(2)

Language Arts/Social Studies Schedule

172

(1)

Grouping Possibilities for Parallel Block Scheduling

172

(1)

Grouping Plan A

173

(1)

Grouping Plan B

173

(1)

Grouping Plan C

174

(1)

Math/Science Schedule

175

(1)

Language Arts and Social Studies Class

175

(1)

Reading-Writing Groups

176

(1)

Language Arts Extension

177

(1)

Math/Science Class

178

(1)

Reduced Math Groups (RMGs) and Math Extension Team Schedule with Science and Social Studies as Extension

178

(1)

Team Schedule with Science and Social Studies as Extension

179

(1)

Four-Teacher Team

179

(2)

Discussion of Parallel Block Scheduling

181

(1)

The Grouping Problem in Mathematics

182

(1)

The Concept-Progress Model

183

(5)

Topical Groupings

183

(2)

Concept Math

185

(1)

Progress Math

185

(1)

Concept-Progress Schedule

185

(1)

Concept-Progress Model Departmentalized Version

186

(2)

Discussion of the Concept-Progress Model

188

(6)

Designing the Concept-Progress Model in the Four-Block Schedule

189

(3)

Using the Writing Lab to Reduce Language Arts Class Size in the Four-Block Schedule

192

(2)

Conclusion

194

(1)

Scheduling Extended Learning Time in the Middle School

195

(26)

Designing a Middle School Schedule That Provides Variable Learning Time for Mathematics

196

(13)

Master Schedule

197

(2)

Mathematics Curricula---Assessment and Scheduling

199

(1)

Variation 1

200

(4)

Variation 2

204

(4)

Benefits of Plan I.

208

(1)

Concerns and Issues Related to Plan I.

208

(1)

Designing a Schedule That Offers the ``Second-Chance Semester''

209

(5)

Variation 1

209

(2)

Variation 2

211

(1)

Variation 3

212

(2)

Designing a Schedule that Institutionalizes Periodic Intensive Remedial Interventions and/or Enrichment

214

(5)

Conclusion

219

(2)

Teaching in the Middle School Block Schedule

221

(34)

Three-Part Lesson Design: Explanation, Application, and Synthesis

222

(6)

Explanation

222

(1)

Application

223

(2)

Synthesis

225

(3)

Instructional Strategies for the Block Schedule

228

(25)

Cooperative Learning

229

(1)

Class Building

229

(1)

Team Formation

230

(1)

Team Building and Team Identity

231

(1)

Cooperative Learning Structures

232

(1)

Group Processing and Evaluation

233

(1)

Seventeen Quick Cooperative Starters

234

(2)

Paideia Seminar Teaching

236

(1)

The Seminar

237

(1)

The Students

237

(1)

The Teacher

237

(1)

The Questions

238

(1)

The Text

238

(1)

The ``Other'' Models of Teaching

239

(1)

Concept Development

240

(1)

Concept Attainment

241

(1)

Inquiry

242

(1)

Synectics

243

(3)

Simulations

246

(1)

Technology

247

(1)

Learning Centers or Stations

248

(1)

Improving Lectures

249

(4)

Designing a Staff Development Plan

253

(1)

Day One

253

(1)

Day Two and Three

253

(1)

Days Four and Five

253

(1)

Days Six to Ten

253

(1)

Conclusion

254

(1)

References

255

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Scheduling Strategies for Middle Schools

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