Week Three - Classmate's Blogs

Week Three -After reading a few classmates blogs I saw some quality ideas for their action research plans. I was most envious of Sheree's initial research idea on block scheduling vs. traditional scheduling. I believe she has since changed her direction to a new topic but I like the initial one. I personally have done both and their are pros and cons for both. My first three years in teaching were at a junior high on block scheduling. My last seven years have been in a traditional schedule setting at a high school. If I had to choose which has more positives I would say the traditional. I would especially say traditional is best in the key areas of math and science where they may be some weeks where the teacher may only see the students twice. I would hope the research would show that students need more exposure in the classroom that every other day. Anyway, it was a good topic and maybe someone will delve into this more in the future.