Middle School Teachers-schedule?

[sarahswim]

If you teach in a middle school/junior high, can you share your daily schedule?

My district is transitioning our 6th grades from three elementary buildings into one 6th-8th building.  The administration claims we can create the 6th grade schedule as we want it.  We've been advised to "dream big" so I'm trying to get an idea of what other buildings do well (and what doesn't work well, either).  Thanks!

[georgeglass]

We have block schedules, so 80 minute classes every other day, except Fridays when we have all classes, and I hate it. 80 minutes is too long for many of the kids...(and teachers).

[sugarbear]

I teach Humanities, so I have students for 90 minutes of social studies and English. All of our other classes are 45 minutes long.

[tiptoetulips]

We have four 80 minute blocks. Electives and PE alternate days, math and LA everyday, and semester based sci or history everyday
I like it. I teach science I feel like the blocks are a perfect length for labs. I try to section things up into 3-4 activities a block. I also prefer seeing a group of kids everyday for the semester and changing vs seeing them every other day

[notsopicky]

We have an anchor day on Monday, where all 7 periods meet for 45 minutes (4 core, 2 electives and PE). Lunch is scheduled through Period 5 (it is long enough to contain all 4 lunch shifts). For classes that meet during Period 5, the "extra time" is used for SSR/character education/other lessons (because that class is 90 minutes + a 30 minute lunch).

Tuesday-Friday, we have a 30 minute advisory, where students receive either remediation in subjects that they have identified needs, or they have enrichment lessons (teachers choose what they want to teach--some do photography, some do niche sports, some do world languages--the years I taught Advisory, one year I did Digital Literacy and Citizenship lessons, one year I did Japanese, one year I did Current Events). Sometimes kids get both, b/c we rotate student groups every 5 weeks. Then we have Period 1 every day for 45 minutes. Then on Tues/Thurs the even periods meet (2, 4, 6) and on W/F the even periods meet (3, 5, 7) for 90 minutes. I feel that block scheduling is hard on middle school kids, but those decisions are way above my pay-grade. Now that I'm the librarian, I do what I can to push into classrooms to co-teach, teach for the teacher, work with kids in small groups, etc. (anything I can do to break up a 90 minute period for kids and adults).

[honeydew1894]

I teach 7th grade in a 7-12 building. We have 41 minute periods and our core classes meet daily.

[erbear]

My middle school is 5-8 grades. 5th grade runs a separate schedule - super flexible blocks that they split however they need between core classes. Sometimes they are all together.

6-8 has six periods in a day, plus a morning break (20 minutes), lunch/recess (40 minutes) and a 35 minute club and advisory period after lunch. 4 of the periods are 50 minutes, 2 are 70, and they rotate.

[Jalapeñomel]

Jun 15, 2019 13:57:03 GMT -5 erbear said:

My middle school is 5-8 grades. 5th grade runs a separate schedule - super flexible blocks that they split however they need between core classes. Sometimes they are all together.

6-8 has six periods in a day, plus a morning break (20 minutes), lunch/recess (40 minutes) and a 35 minute club and advisory period after lunch. 4 of the periods are 50 minutes, 2 are 70, and they rotate.

OMG...I wish middle school had recess here.

[erbear]

Jun 29, 2019 20:35:24 GMT -5 Jalapeñomel said:

Jun 15, 2019 13:57:03 GMT -5 erbear said:

My middle school is 5-8 grades. 5th grade runs a separate schedule - super flexible blocks that they split however they need between core classes. Sometimes they are all together.

6-8 has six periods in a day, plus a morning break (20 minutes), lunch/recess (40 minutes) and a 35 minute club and advisory period after lunch. 4 of the periods are 50 minutes, 2 are 70, and they rotate.

OMG...I wish middle school had recess here.

It baffles me that schools don't. Hell, even our high school runs 2 classes, break, 2 classes, lunch