Scheduling Strategies for Middle Schools / Edition 1

by Michael D. Rettig, Robert Lynn Canady

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781883001674
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/01/2000
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	280
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Robert Lynn Canady, Michael D. Rettig

Table of Contents

Preface, 1 The Critical Role of Scheduling in Fully Implementing Middle School Practices, 2 Adapting Principles of Modular Scheduling for the Middle School, 3 Alternate-Day Schedules in the Middle School, 4 The Four-Block Schedule: Adapting the 4/4 High School Block Schedule for middle Schools, 5 The Five-Block Middle School Schedule, 6 Scheduling Exploratory and Elective Classes in the Middle School: Expanding the Possibilities, 7 Using Principles of Parallel Block Scheduling in Middle School to Reduce Class Size, 8 Scheduling Extended Learning Time in the Middle School, 9 Teaching in the Middle School Block Schedule, References