Year-Round Schooling: The Way to Go
Many people feel that no school should have a year-round schedule because it is not right for children be in school year round. Despite this feeling, many schools have changed their schedule to a year-round one to benefit their students as well as their teachers. Year-round schooling (YRS), also know as year-round education (YRE), is a good way to better students’ education. It betters students’ education by provided more frequent breaks, and giving student opportunites to participate in inter-sessions.
The first year-round school in the United States was in Bluffton, Indiana in the year 1904. The purpose of changing their schedule to a year-round one was to increase the school building capacity, student achievement, minimize summer learning loss, and provide remediation during inter-sessions. From then till 1998 and 1999, there have been over two thousand year-round schools throughout the United States, Canada, and the Pacific Region.
Year-round schedules can be made up of two types of systems, a single track, and a multi-track with attendance programs or a combination the two. The single track is for the whole student body to follow the same schedule, as well as the staff. The multi-track separates the students and teachers into groups. Each group gets assigned a different track. The benefits of having multi-track programs are less overcrowding, class size reduction, and giving teachers the opportunity to work year-round (Palmer & Bemis, 1999).
In addition to single track and multi-track systems there are other various types of year-round schedules. The 60-20 and 60-15, 45-15 and 45-10, and Concept 6 are the most
common type. The 60-20 schedule is divided into three 60 day se...
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... school calendars offer sports after school, this gives students less time to study and do homework in order to improve, or if the student studies all he or she can, they loss sleep. Having sports offered during inter-sessions gives students more time during the school sessions to study and do homework, plus giving them more time to sleep in order to help them perform better in the classroom. During the frequent breaks, or inter-sessions if teachers opt not to teach, gives them additional time to prepare better lesson plans and have more energy to teach. During the school sessions, because of the frequent breaks in year round schooling, students and teachers get less of a work load in a period of time compared to students and teachers who are in a school with a traditional calendar. This reduces the stress of those teachers and students making everybody a bit happier.
One of the most talked about issues of schooling today, would be year round schooling. The program started as a new way to learn. The old way and still the way most schools calendar is set up was designed the way it is due to harvest times, when the United States was a farming country. There have been many studies done, and some schools have already implemented this program. The studies and the schools that have gone ahead and implemented the program have seen both good things and bad things in their findings. There will be both pros and cons for every issue, and some may see pros and cons differently. Year round schooling is the idea of attending school for an entire year, not all 365 days, but continuously throughout the year. Year round schooling operates on a different schedule to incorporate the same amount of classroom time as a typical school schedule has. The only difference is that the breaks are shorter, but there are more of them in year round schooling. This is the basis of most of the arguments for and against year round schooling.
Teachers would firstly benefit from an implementation of year-round school by additional income earning opportunities. In a year-round system, several “tracks” are established, so that the students and teachers on each track rotate through periods of vacation and school time. Teachers who are on vacation constitute a pool of substitute teachers. The benefit to the teacher is the opportunity to earn money beyond that provided in the contract (Quinlan, 71). This is a revolutionary means for teachers to have both full-time teaching careers and a means to earn needed money on the side. In a nine-month calendar, educators have few chances to actively earn money by teaching during the summer bre...
According to the National Association for Year-Round Education, more than 2 million students attend close to 3,000 year-round schools in 41 states and 610 school districts, which is a dramatic increase compared to the early 1990’s. There are a variety of YRE schedules and currently there is the choice of single or multi-track, options within both of those, and an extended school year. Single track YRE -.. Single-track YRE is simply the reorganization of vacation time; summer break is broken up and distributed to make a more continuous period of instruction. All students and teachers follow the same schedule, and the rescheduled vacation is integrated throughout the school year into periods called intersessions. Intersessions are “usually utilized as instructional time for remediation and enrichment” with both single and multi-track calendars.
When that particular group returns from vacation, another track will go on vacation leaving the other tracks in school and so on. A calendar such as this is implemented in response to overcrowded schools, and allows for more students to attend one school. It has also been suggested that single-track YRS serves well as a transition to multi-track YRS (Shields & Oberg, 2000; Stenvall, 2003; Thomas, 1973). Either way both schedules offer more efficient use of school facilities, which is definitely a positive.
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