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Home : 2002 : Jul : 14
Breaking it up is hard to do
By Shannon
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I also agree that it is not the length of the day that matters, but how it's broken up. With fifth grade our students rotated classrooms for periods, and each period was two hours long. They could handle this in the morning, but during the period that was right before lunch they got antsy. After lunch we only had an hour, and this was a really awkward time that seemed to short for anything substantial. It was ironic because I always felt that we had way too much time in the morning, but not enough time in the afternoon. I think the person who gets a 45-minute planning period is the lucky one. At my school we never have any release time, and I would gladly have a longer day if it meant the kids would spend part of it with a special teacher.
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