Re: rotating schedule & dropping classes
Posted by Zhel on 9/02/08
On 9/01/08, anyone?? wrote:
> My school is going to a new schedule this year. The
> students will be taking 7 courses, but with a 6 period day.
> Each day, a new class will drop from the rotation. So,
the
> schedule would go:
> Day 1: periods 1 - 6
> Day 2: periods 2 - 7
> Day 3: periods 3 - 1
> etc
>
> I will be teaching 5 periods - 2 of one course, 2 of
another
> course, and 1 of a third course.
>
> If you have a similar schedule, how do you keep your
classes
> on track? I'd like to keep my sections of the same course
> on the same lessons, but don't know how I'll be able to
with
> this schedule!
In my system we have the designated number of class periods
during the year (in most cases I have 72; twice a week).
I prepare the yearly calendar with all the class periods in
a form of a Word table. It is a running calendar and I
constantly change it as we go. I keep a paper copy of the
first page with me so I write on margins, and then (usually
on weekends or when I have a block of prep periods) I make
changes and print the new first page (it has 30-40 pages so
I do not print them all)
One line in a calendar looks something like this (these are
the cells within one line):
-date
-day of week (very important when you make changes)
-class group (for example 10/2)
-number of class period (for example 54)
-objective of the class (for example fish systematics)
-empty space for remarks
My experience is that you can NEVER keep them on the same
lessons. A quick glance at my calendar tells me that one
group will always run two class periods in front of the
other, because the "slower" group would lose two Tuesdays in
November and the "quicker" group will later lose two Fridays
in April, so at the end of the year they will end up the
same.
Posts on this thread, including this one
- rotating schedule & dropping classes, 9/01/08, by anyone??.
- Re: rotating schedule & dropping classes, 9/01/08, by Rebecca.
- Re: rotating schedule & dropping classes, 9/02/08, by Zhel.
- Re: rotating schedule & dropping classes, 9/06/08, by MelissafromVA.
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