Most students, and some teachers, think PACK is a waste of time, and I am one of those people. The class has it’s ups and downs, just like every other class, but there are more downs to this class. PACK was supposed to give students more time to make up their test and their work. But most students don’t utilize this class and it frustrates teachers. PACK is a long, wasted, class period where kids do nothing productive, where they talk to their friends, and it’s where they get penalized for not signing up for it.
Students do nothing productive during PACK, so it has become a wasted class period. At the beginning of the year in PACK was fun, student did things like decorating the door for homecoming and other entertaining stuff like that. Now in PACK on Mondays we just play on the chromebooks or do homework, and sometimes we will watch a video. On the rest of the days, Tuesday through Friday, we sign up for pack and in those classes we do very little, if we do anything at all. So really Pack is just like study hall, except the whole school is in it. So PACK creates the problem of kids doing nothing productive for 45 minutes.
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We have to sign up for PACK, we have no other option and if you don’t sign up you’re sent to a class anyways, some kids take this to their advantage and use this class time to hang out with their friends. They’ll talk to their friends and they’ll sign up for the same classes, this has created a problem for teachers because then the students joke around in class and they become distractions. Another problem revolving around this is students won’t go to the classes they signed up for. They will sign up for a random class or won’t sign up at all and they won’t go to their assigned class they’ll just go to whoever they want or they’ll go to their friends class. This creates problems because teachers don’t know where these students
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.
Your teacher finishes her lesson and assigns some class work. You were able to get your class work done right away, so you helped out your classmate until your teacher starts preparing the class for a test, you feel good about the test because you had studied for it last night. Again, the classroom is quiet, but this time when other students are getting done with their test and the noise level increases, you don’t hear it, your able to block it out and finish your test. At the end of the day when you pack up to leave, you take the extra time to put everything in its place within your backpack; you have finished another day of school where your behavior card remained on
Extended class periods and block scheduling will improve student’s grades and can diminish their stress level significantly. A normal day in block scheduling consists of only four classes a day, alternating each day. These classes would last 120 minutes each, with the same 5 minute passing periods in between classes. This scheduling gives teachers more time to explain their lesson. It also gives students time to recover from the late nights due to sports and other activities because they only have four classes a day. Their homework for these classes isn’t due for another day, so they don’t have to stress over getting it done. 120 minute classes combined with blocked scheduling increases the amount of time teachers have for instruction and will overall increase the student’s knowledge, in turn, raising their grades.
Students may need to nap to compensate for energy expended throughout the day. However, if schools were to start later, adolescents would not have to nap, allowing for a larger window of time to spend with their families after school, even with a later start time. Another opposing argument is that students would have less time to participate in extracurricular activities. However, this issue can be resolved by making practices for sports and club meetings shorter and more frequent to accommodate the schedule variation. Overall, the benefits of later start times far outweigh the drawbacks.
Students spend a huge chunk of their lives in classrooms; the type of classroom helps or hinders them in life. Each student and teacher have reciprocal power; "reciprocal power enables teachers and students to undermine any attempt at domination by a single person in the classroom" (Pauly, 57). Students often use reciprocal power when they want to disrupt the class, screaming that they do not want to be in the class or do not want to learn. It is the teachers ' job to take that power back and show the class who is in charge of the classroom before all mayhem breaks
...uld stop if students stand together. As the old saying goes, if you’re not a part of the solution, your part of the problem.
The study hall will give students time to study for test and be ready for it. Some kids will need time to study for test, if they have not studied at home. Some students have lots of work or something else they might have to do. When they are doing the work they sometimes do not have time to study. If a student has an after school job, it might take up most of their time to study. Mainly most students will cram while they are at school, but it is a low chance they will do well. This is not the only reason schools need study halls. This is one of the many reasons schools need study halls.
Throughout my educational experience not once did I ever come to think about how much of a difference the size of class makes. As I sit here thinking about how much of a difference my education would have been if the class sizes were smaller. I remember sitting still in class as I observed my teacher pressing against her temples stressed out because her class of thirty-one wasn’t listening to the instructions. “Kids if you can just please listen to me and stop hiding so we can start class.” Mrs. Robles exclaimed. Not a day went by where she did not mention how big this class was and how many kids were crammed into her small classroom as she went over her material. Regardless of it being presented with such normality we are unaware of how much of a problem it has been. In fact, this has been a problem with over 40 states in America and they have all carried out a ruling that entails smaller classes for academic and disciplinary reasons. Throughout the following essay I
This is true because neither the teachers nor the students are able to fully focus on their work, causing a lack of concentration. An absence of productivity leads to even bigger problems. When the students aren’t listening or participating, the teacher has to spend even more time re-teaching the material at a later time. This throws the teacher off-schedule and prohibits them from covering all of the material they need to by the end of the semester. Students also have a harder time reaching deadlines if they are unable to cover all of the necessary material in class, forcing the teacher to push back the due dates to an even later date.
Students often are involved in after school activities which, between school and the activities they hardly have any time to do homework and study. The article “Highschool Pressure” by Rachel D. states “We result to quickly completing homework and we do not receive any educational value from it. Also, we may not have any time to study at all, which would result in a failing grade.” Second, students are pressured which can cause students to lose focus in class. The article “Highschool Pressure” also states “long school hours puts much pressure on students. We may tend to slack off which could be harmful for their education in the long run.” Third, since all classes usually take a while to start it would not harm the students learning by taking a couple of minutes off of each class. Another statement in “Highschool Pressure” is “by cutting time out of the school day, the students education level would not be hurt. The students would be able to retain the same information within an hour or half an hour.” A shortened school schedule would improve learning by giving them more time to study and complete
Todays students are busier than they have ever been in American history. Homework is a large contributor to this. The average student in America has approximately four hours of homework each night. If students start homework right when they get home from school, that gives them free time starting at 7:00 PM. The majority of students also have jobs. So. between school, work, homework, and practice, that leaves them virtually no time to be able to hang out with friends or to participate in family activities.
“It’s a sight that’s all too common now: teenagers never looking up, glued to their cell phones every hour of the day"(Bautista). Teens are being distracted one way or another, and taking advantage of what our technology is capable of. The use of cell phones by students across the state of Pennsylvania should be prohibited because students are more likely to cheat, cell phones cause distractions, and hallways will become hazardous.
Technologies like computers or iPads (or anything with internet access for that matter) in the classroom could possibly distract students from their work. Classroom administrators seem to forget that the majority of students really don’t want to be in the classroom.. I remember when I was in highschool, whenever a teacher would bring students into a computer lab, or bring class sets of computers, or bring iPads into the classroom for a lesson a large portion would go onto twitter, or onto any unblocked flash game website whenever the teacher was not looking, try to access anything for them to “escape” the classroom. When there are a large majority of children and/or teens that do not want to go to school, and are given tools to be rebellious so easily, what is going to stop them? Aside, who really wants to sit through the same autonomous paper typing over and over again...
Imagine sitting in a class, completely bored out of your mind. This is not difficult considering everyone has taken a class like this somewhere along the road of their education. Not every class can be exciting and we should know that. Now imagine every class is of this level, with no “break”, or elective, classes incorporated into your day. Although this may not apply to all private schools, there are many that focus on specific topics. So even though the...
Each student needs the teacher to give them more than five minutes of attention to them when they are in class. In the article "How important is class size?"by GreatSchools Staff “Academic gains are not the only benefit of lowering class size. A recent study published in the American Journal of Public Health revealed that reducing class sizes in elementary schools may be more cost-effective than most public health and medical interventions. This is because students in smaller classes are more likely to graduate from high school, and high school graduates earn more and also enjoy significantly better health than high school dropouts.” The article is stating that children with a group of 20 students in class a sufficient for the students. Student can ask assistants form teacher without having to wait too long than in a lager class it becomes chaotic with too many students. In a smaller classroom student comprehend much more of the lesson and this will help student in the future from dropping out for school. This will improve with funding school hiring more teachers to have a functional