Classroom Scheduling Analysis

Instead of taking entire class to drink water and use restroom after lunch, allow groups of students to go while others are working on bell ringers.

Growing up in Chicago, I attended a neighborhood school from preschool through first grade. Although it was an exceptional school for elementary kids, the education for middle school and high school students was not as adequate. Seeking a better place to raise their children, my parents were faced with a tough choice. When I was in 2nd grade, our family made the decision to move to the suburbs. On July 3rd, we all packed into our Honda minivan and drove 45 minutes to a new home in the town of Winnetka. Within my first year at Crow Island, my new school, I learned so many new things. I started playing the violin and speaking Spanish, neither of which were offered at my old school. I met my best friends that I'm still close with now. Over the

Throughout my elementary school years i moved schools about four different times until i finally stayed at imperial beach elementary for third grade. I stayed at imperial beach until seventh grade because it was made into a charter school. Eighth grade i moved to montgomery middle because the school bus didn't have a route to imperial beach anymore. I had gotten really attached to my teachers and classmates i felt like i was being ripped apart from my family, one of my teachers even offered to give me rides to school every morning. The first day i was at montgomery middle i noticed everything was so different, the school was ten times bigger there was more than two hundred students at montgomery while i was used to the hundred and fifty students at imperial beach. I felt so out of place like i was attending a fake school all my life before montgomery in P.E we actually had lockers unlike imperial beach where we would change in the bathroom stalls. I was confused as to where i was to change and i asked one of the girls next to me if we had to change infront of each other. In imperial beach i had the same four teachers all day and since it was the first year of the charter school we had a very small space to be at and we couldn't cross a red line dividing us from the elementary school or else we would get in trouble. The most shocking difference i had was that we couldn't retake your yearbook

One of the greatest barriers I had to face during school was repeating the first grade. I remembered being devastated when I heard the news, my parents were quite devastated as well, I didn't know what to do. I had to see my friends and cousins go on ahead without me, I was all alone. The reason for my repeating of first grade was because I fell back on the learning material and was always off task. Don’t get me wrong it was challenging to understand my teacher Mrs. Robbins from Argentina, she would speak with an accent at times. Summer was in session and I spent most of my time thinking about was I was expecting next year. The thought of it itself was frightening, another year of first grade, I was anxious about meeting my new teacher and

Susanna Ordway spoke in favor of the proposed changes to the instructional calendar. She has a senior at Cal High and an older child. She feels her daughters had added stress and anxiety during the holidays due to finals being after the holidays. Her older child, who is in college, returns home prior to the break with her finals complete and is able to take a break from the pressures of school.

I began to attend Thompson Middle School which did not go very well in the beginning. I was very depressed as I was being bullied every day. I was different; I was a military brat with a disability and had never attended anything but military schools on a base. Coming from overseas

Derry Township School District would like to move forward with exploring the idea of Flexible Instructional Days. Flexible Instructional Days (FIDS) employ non-traditional strategies to provide a continuity of instruction on regularly-scheduled school days during which circumstances necessitate an alternate approach. To that end, Dave Sweigert and I have been tasked with assembling a K-12 committee to explore this topic during the 16-17 school year.

Scheduling and true integration can be a very difficult task to overcome. Specialized feeding plans and consuming toileting routines tend to take up a lot of instructional time. As we have discussed in previous posts, regardless of the severity of his or her disability, a student should be allowed in an inclusive setting, unless that disability interferes with his or her education. Therefore, it is important to create a classroom schedule in which students with multiple disabilities can be accommodated for. Ideally, these times should not interfere with the student’s instructional time. When thinking about student schedules, one factor to consider is typical feeding and toileting times. During those feeding and toileting times, I would schedule

Elementary wasn’t always so bad. In fact, I remember the early years quite fondly. From trips to the corn maze to pizza lunches, school was bearable. It was grade six that went seriously sour. For some reason that I still cannot put my finger on to this day, I was targeted. The

It has been 26 long years since I graduated from high school and attended East Carolina University for one brief semester. I’m Kathleen Martin and I live in Richmond, VA. To Trey, 22 and Charlie, 20 I’m Mom; to my Dad I’m still Kathleen but to my friends, co-workers and the rest of my family I’m Kat and to my boyfriend I’m Tak, yes Kat backwards. Don’t ask, he’s silly that way! I was married 21 years to my high school sweetheart, we had two great kids but we grew apart. I put my education on hold to have my family. So, now that my children are grown and it’s just two of us at home I can focus on me. Why am I here, you ask? My oldest son is a heroin addict. No, I’m not ashamed. I am sad for him, his girlfriend and our family. Mostly

After the interesting time that was elementary school, the change to the intermediate school was not an unwelcome one. In fact, I was rather excited to pass on to the newly redone and recently renamed Lincoln Intermediate school. It was a time of change and that was exciting and terrifying. The first year of band, me newly on my trombone with only a few lessons of experience from the summer, four times as many kids my age for me to get to know, and a larger school. Needless to say it was a time to feel anxious.

It was a struggle growing up for me. As a kid, I never went to a public school. I was only homeschooled, but I learn the same things, it just took longer sometimes. Until I move to a new town, I started going to public schools. I was going into sixth grade, well normally I would of be going to be in seventh grade, but my mother insisted I should stay back, just for I can be able to keep up. Therefore, it was hard when

Elementary school started out as a bore but moved on to eventually being fun and enjoyable. I grew to love school and learning during my fourth and fifth grade years at Zia elementary school. My teacher taught me the value of history and American History

My education began in kindergarten in 1993. It wasn't easy for me, because school was the first place I ever got to interact with other people, mainly children. Before I started school, I was pretty much kept indoors, and not allowed to have contact with other people, except for members of my own family. This was all because I was a little girl. During the first 5 years of my life, I figured that was all I was entitled to, and even though I hated it, I lived with it. In first grade, I had to interact with other kids for the first time, which was not easy. I did eventually learn that I could make new friends with them, and soon settled down into school. The quality of education that first year was not bad, I learned a lot and grew a lot during that year. I had great teachers too, who really gave me the help I needed. Second grade at that school was a different story though, I had a different teacher, who was not very good, and seldom offered the help I needed. I was also treated like I was lower than the rest of the students. I don’t know what her problem with me was, but it set me back a great deal, both academically and emotionally. When I needed help, it was not given and I was often ignored. She felt that it was not worth it to help those students who needed it. Fortunately, my parents saw this and intervened, first trying to negotiate, then after that broke down, transferred me to another school. The new school was very different, being more structured than the first.

During the research studies, I have observed some problem which is involves in KPTM KL. It is not only occur among the students, however the problem also faced by the staffs including lecturers. After I considered all the problems involving, I am so attractive to studies on the implication of increasing number of students to their class timetables. To start this, firstly I need to find the past research which is related to my studies and try to use it to guide me as long as my research is running. Therefore, I have chosen the review from Massachusetts 2020 which is studies on the effects of longer classes on learning. During my studies, I want to focus this research among the degree level students in KPTM