Chapter 1

While reading through chapter 1 I came across the block scheduling and how that worked though out a middle school, and the perks of having this type of scheduling instead of a traditional one. I remember from when I did my shadowing for 227, I thought that the classroom scheduling was ran like a traditional schedule, but as I kept reading it seemed to have characteristics of both. There where 7 or 8 class periods in the day for at least 45 minutes long. But what reminded me of a nontraditional scheduling was, that when the bell rang the kids where not free to rome the hallways. They were to leave the classroom and go straight to the next classroom and get into a single file line. If i am remembering correctly they where supposed to be quiet. I think schools should have traditional scheduling because middle school children's brains need a break, and over powering them with information will just turn their learning abilities off, and they are not learning anything at all. As it said in the book about 30 minute class periods in between the 74 minute classes is not enough time to let your brain relax, which in all heinz sight can't anyways because that 30 minute period is also a class for learning. So I think doing it non traditionally is a lose lose for both the teachers and the students.