Do you like to go to school for seven hours a day straight with no breaks? Mr. Hale please consider having a short break. Having a break would benefit the students. It would acquiesce them to use the bathroom or socialize with friends. Also, you could finish any homework or study. It would also help students pay better attention in class. To begin with, a small break would provide time to use the bathroom and socialize with friends. Teachers only avow you to have five hall passes to use the bathroom in nine weeks. When you run out of hall passes and you need to use the bathroom it is silent lunch every time you go without a pass. Next, ninety minute classes with no socialization can get very boring, and cause people to act up
Finally, having longer passing periods would benefit our health. I have something called patellofemoral pain, so when I walk fast in the halls my knees start to hurt really bad. Also, when you’re rushing to get to your next class you can slam the locker door in a hurry and hurt someone. We never have enough time to go to the bathroom which can lead to health problems in the future. With the four minute passing period we don’t have time to socialize with friends which is important for your mental health. When you’re rushing down the hall you could fall and trip, hurting yourself or someone in the process. These are some of the reasons having a longer passing period would benefit our health.
As I wearily sat in my seat, writing an essay on the importance of electricity in the modern world, I caught myself glancing repeatedly at the clock that was so carefully perched above the teacher’s desk. “Ten minutes, only ten more minutes left until school is over and I get to go home!” I told myself. In most schools, the average school day is about eight hours long. Eight hours of continuously sitting in a chair taking notes during lectures, doing classwork, projects, etc. During these eight hours of school, students deserve a short, outdoor break in which they can isolate themselves from the stress of working all day and just relax. Studies have shown that people who take short breaks throughout the day to do light, outdoor breaks are more productive than those who do not. A short, outdoor break will benefit students due to the fact that students will have time to relax; students will be able to focus more, concentrate, and be more productive; and teachers will have more time to prepare for the next class coming.
Truancy can occur among students if an open campus is accepted. If students have the privilege to leave school for fifty whole minutes on their own, then they have the freedom to not come back. It would break the trust between students and educators, and harsher rules would have to be enforced on the open campus rule. Numerous students who decide to ditch the remaining periods would have an excessive amount of in-school absences. This could lead to parent conferences and suspension, and possibly expulsion in some cases. When a student misses or skips a class, the information taught that day would not be accessible in the same format which others have learned. One?s academic grades can be effected from lack of information by truancy. Irresponsible students who choose to take the risk of leaving their school after lunch for the remainder of the day will not have this opportunity if an open campus is kept closed.
The most exciting play in basketball is the fast break. This poem outlines every detail of the fast break and does a great job using the words to create a fantastic visual for the reader. The title of the poem, “Fast Break,” is actually what the whole poem is describing. The visual that is created is one of the reasons this poem is so appealing. My love for the game of basketball, more specifically at the collegiate level is another reason why this poem catches my attention. The author, Edward Hirsch, is probably the speaker and also a coach or fan of the team that is playing. I would say that he was a player, but all five players of the team are outlined in the poem and it’s not written in the third person. The author might also be mistaken as the head coach of the team; however the poem is in memory of the late Dennis Turner, whom I believe to be the Head Coach. A fast break lasts approximately five seconds on the court and the poem outlines every motion of both the offense and defense. The author puts the fast break in slow motion for the reader so that they can understand and re-live the play in their imagination.
Day after day, late students are punished or end up in detention due to short passing periods. Having short passing periods can make a student’s grade go down or worse when students are late to class. This can be prevented by extending passing periods to 10 minutes. Although the staff at H.P.M.S may disapprove, but in the long run, they will see the effects of having longer passing periods has on students. Because of the short time of passing periods, students at Happy Place Middle School are petitioning to extend their passing period time to 10 minutes. In short, some of the positive effects are that students can get to class on time, and gives students and teachers time to prepare.
I am convinced that students would do better in school if they had a midday break that allowed them enough time to eat a good meal because they need to recharge their brains with physical activity. This will give students an extra push to have more energy when they return back to class. Critics may exaggerate that this method will do nothing but make students drained and exhausted personally I disagree. A mid-day break for an hour will do nothing but strengthen us, all of us. It also will give students extra time to finish unfinished assignments and homework that wasn't completed at
It was a wise technique on her behalf as she reminds Americans that down time and education go hand in hand. She states that a break or recess is equally as important due to the fact it refreshes students thinking skills whereas a structured lesson plan can only go so far. Lectures are necessary but she explains they can only go so far in making a child want to learn and become more creative thinkers beyond what the syllabus requires of
My other course I teach, F.C.S. Connections (requirement for our juniors in the high school) I personally believe I provide brain breaks for them. The content within this course provides students information on temperament, personalities, family and dating relationships, communication and conflict management skills, personal financial management, and empathy training. This course meets the framework for movement from brain breaks to teaching content. However, the foods course does not even come close to comparing. I personally feel comfortable with starting at providing brain breaks in my Foods 1 course. The reason behind having brain breaks is for the students to take a break from the content. During lab days, I have no problem having my students up and moving around but during lecture days, I need to improve. My goal is to have one brain break during each lecture day, my course takes place during an 80 minute block. My strategy to accomplish this goal is that after learning one concept or completing a worksheet/activity, I would have my students do a brain break before moving onto the next content. By taking a few minutes to take a break, my students will be able “to refocus the brain, lessen the feelings of being overwhelmed by the content, reenergize the body and the brain, and provides an opportunity for laughter and fun” (Lengel & Kuczala,
During cognitive development it is important that teachers allow time for students to have breaks in between classroom tasks such as recess and other extracurricular activities. Learning large amounts of material is easier for children to understand when it is taken in as chunks. Assign children with short tasks and switch from demanding activities to less demanding activities (Biehler & Snowman, 2000).
Children can burn off bottled up energy at recess that they have accumulated while sitting through their teacher’s lessons. Lahey mentions that “studies have found that students who enjoy the benefit of recess are more attentive once they return to class”. This is helpful because the child will be focused on what they are learning instead of fidgeting in their chair. Also, providing breaks to students while they are learning can result in longer attention spans. Recess is a break that recharges the brain and allows elementary students to control their desire to adventure. Young children are easily distracted, so recess regulates this by providing them with their own free time. Students become more self-contained after they return from recess due to their tiredness. This is useful in class because children will be less hyperactive. The absence of recess would not permit students to learn self-control
Almost anyone can relate to that one specific feeling of walking down the stairs and for a split second missing a step and watching your life flash before your eyes. For that one split second, your heart jumps out of your chest and for a brief moment you panic about whether you’re going to be able to catch yourself before you hit the ground. That split second is so fleeting that after it happens, about an hour later you’ve totally forgotten about it. But now imagine that split second being longer, lasting for what feels like eternity and constantly coming back whenever you think about it. That feeling of your heart lurching and your stomach twisting as you lose control.
“There is so much pressure on setting up the classroom and getting ready for the kids to return. So often, staff development is not fully utilized by all teachers or is not the best it could be since the teachers feel such pressure to get into their classrooms.”( Towler)Where is is no time for the teacher to get fully really for the students after the break is over. Without the time to clean up the classroom and meeting for the new school year. With the many breaks it can be a very choppy year that will hurt to the student. Patricia McCracken who went to school in a year round school said,
The traditional three-month break during summer can cause students to forget much of what they learned the year before, but this break especially hinders students learning a language in school (Rodgers 70). Students that speak English as a second language rely mostly on their schools to teach them English, and a three-month break will put these children behind when the school year starts again. Additionally, students in a language immersion program also struggle to retain information when they do not speak or hear a language over a long period of time. If their parents do not speak the language they learn at school, English or otherwise, the students generally struggle when they return to school. Furthermore, year-round students typically perform better on standardized testing. In a 1983 study, a higher percentage of high school seniors, in a year-round school system, passed district-mandated tests than the average passing rate (Alkin et al 43). Frequent, but shorter, breaks keep students focused and motivated, helping them to achieve higher test scores. Students also can seek tutoring or extra help during regular breaks, which makes it easier for a student who struggles to catch up when
Next, us big kids need longer breaks when we do get one because we have a 90-Minute period classes.
I think that we should not change the class schedule to only 7 periods because some people don’t want to sit in class for almost an hour. Changing the schedule would make my day not interesting. Some of my classes I don't like and don't want to be in there longer than I already have to. Other people probably wouldn’t want to be stuck in a class that they don’t like for almost a hour. And losing a elective wouldn’t be good either because then you would have something fun to do out of your day.