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News Analysis
are more likely to use a variety of teaching strategies, such as cooperative learning, role playing and small group work.
With four classes per day, there are fewer interruptions during the day, and there is less time when students are passing in the hall, a primary time for discipline incidents, administrators report. Most say the school atmosphere is calmer after block scheduling is introduced.
Teachers under either block scheduling system have a full 80 or 90-minute planning period. Another advantage cited is that students have the opportunity to explore more options or concentrate more in certain areas because they can get an eighth class in a year.
Advantages of the alternating day schedule are that teachers and students get a break from each other every other day, and that there are not large breaks in time between sequenced classes.
Proponents of that schedule say it teaches students to manage their time, and that it is
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