Including a flex period in an A/B block schedule also helps give teachers and students access to each other on the days they aren’t scheduled to see each other so that students needing help have that day to get support and catch up before the next scheduled block with that teacher.Tracking the working hours and shifts of employees is a very critical point to provide an effective working pattern. In the example below, the blocks are divided into two morning blocks and two afternoon blocks with a flex period and lunch period between them with A days consisting of blocks 1, 2, 3, and 4 and B days consisting of blocks 5, 6, 7, and 8. The advantages of a 4x4 schedule are that teachers see fewer students per day, students have a day between each class to complete homework, and students have the opportunity to take more classes during the year. Because there are only 5 days in a school week, an A/B schedule often runs on a two-week rotation with week one being A, B, A, B, A, and week two being B, A, B, A, B. Like 4x4, each block typically lasts between 80-100 minutes. Courses would last the full year, giving students and teachers more time during a class period to work on various activities to reinforce learning. For example, students might attend blocks 1, 2, 3, and 4 on A days and attend blocks 5, 6, 7, and 8 on B days. Additionally, for students that have to be frequently absent for extracurricular activities, a rotating standard schedule reduces the impact on any one class due to these absences.Īn A/B block schedule is similar to a 4x4 block schedule, except students alternate between two block schedules every day. The advantage of a rotating standard schedule is that students often enjoy the variation in their schedule each day breaking up the monotony of a standard bell schedule, and it has the potential to reduce behavioral issues such as after lunch. This period is also used as an Advisory Period once a week on Mondays (and as needed otherwise). Students also attend a Flex Period each day at the end of the day. In this California-based example below, students attend 6 periods each day, but those 6 periods shift each day. For example, if Jorge attends Language Arts during the first period on Monday, he would attend Language Arts during the second period on Tuesday, and the class periods would continue to rotate each day throughout the week. A rotating standard bell schedule is similar to a standard bell schedule in that students attend each of their classes each day and each class is generally the same length each day, but instead of each class period meeting at a fixed time each day, each class meets during a different period each day.
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