Types+of+Flexible+Scheduling

**Four Main Types of Flexible Scheduling**
Most often used by interdisciplinary teams, blocks of time usually consist of two or more combined periods, sometimes scheduled as one block in the morning and one block in the afternoon. A team may decide to use the morning block for a project library session with half the team of students, flip-flopping the session with the second half of the students in the afternoon block of time. Or, one teacher may provide instruction in two subjects, such as in language arts and social studies, or math and science.
 * 1. Block Scheduling:**

Classes are assigned on an every-other- day basis during the week. A student can take music on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, and art on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Or a career class and a study skills class can meet on alternate days, taught by two teachers or the same teacher, depending on staffing requirements.
 * 2. Alternate Day Classes:**

Following a master schedule of all classes in sequence, classes are held at different times each day, by rotating the classes one period later each day. This process enables students to have all subjects at various times of the day and can be implemented by teams or by an entire school. Thus a student might have math at 9 a.m. on Monday, at 10 a.m. onTuesday, at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, etc.
 * 3. Rotating Schedules:**

Students are scheduled for more classes than class periods, with one class being dropped on any given day. This schedule provides allotted times for advisory programs, silent sustained reading, assemblies, study skill instruction, and other extra offerings. For example, the last period of the day may be filled with clubs on Monday, student council and service units on Tuesday, study skill instruction on Wednesday, sustained silent readying on Thursday, and assembles (school or team) on Fridays.
 * 4. Dropped Schedule:**