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Reply to "Will we ever move away from block scheduling? "
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[quote=Anonymous]Block scheduling makes no sense from a learning perspective. A person can only absorb so much information from a lecture - maybe 30 minutes worth at most. In a math class, you could do practice problems for the next hour but you would probably lose focus doing that as well. But in a history class, the rest of the time becomes wasted time. Try it yourself - find an online class that runs for 1.5 hours and see how you manage to concentrate for that long. Even in universities, if the class is meant to be 2 hours long, they have a 10-15 minute break halfway through. Block learning essentially means your child is learning 1/2 the material that he or she would if there were 45 or 50 minute classes. For the poster who says her kids backpack is too heavy already, how is that possible since FCPS doesn't use textbooks? [/quote]
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