There is also a Special Section on Block Scheduling that includes another article from the March 1994 issue of The School Administrator . Educational Leadership 53, no. The Executive Educator 17, no. The Coalition of Essential Schools devotes this issue of its newsletter to a discussion of how alternative schedules support teaching and learning philosophies in Coalition schools. Foreign language and math teachers are often among the most skeptical about the wisdom of such a schedule, because of the sequential nature of their subjects.
Students still take most courses throughout the year, but in longer blocks on alternating days.
For the teachers at Scott, who are committed to doing more group work and being more available to their students, these pictures were disappointing. We realized that we revert back to traditional modes of teaching more than we thought we did. John Goodlad's 1984 book, A Place Called School , accelerated the vilification of the lecture, says Robert Hampel of the University of Delaware. This tendency of some reformers to throw the baby out with the bath water is a common complaint among teachers. In fact, teachers say they are lecturing less than ever.