Simplifying a Crowded Schedule (1945)

• Published in: Schools (Chicago, Ill.) Vol. 11; no. 1; pp. 66 - 74
• Main Author: Diederich, Paul B
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: University of Chicago Press 01.03.2014
• Subjects: Change Strategies; Critical Path Method; Educational Change; High Schools; Job Simplification; School Schedules; Teaching (Occupation); Teaching Load; Time Blocks

This commentary describes the limitations of 40-minute class period times. The forty-minute system makes hash of the lives of teachers, especially in small schools, and about 80 percent of high schools have fewer than two hundred pupils. These small schools crowd their forty-minute periods with as m...