There are two ways of teaching subjects: the one-period-a-day method and the block system where you have a double-length class every other day. I strongly prefer the first. If you are out of school for any reason, you only miss one day’s worth of each subject. That does not put you so far behind as to make it difficult to catch up. With block scheduling, you have missed the equivalent of two days for half your subjects. It takes longer to catch up. From a teaching point of view, it can tend to get two sections of the same subject into separate parts of the course as interrupting events such as assemblies always seem to fall on either the A day or the B day and the classes involved fall further and further behind. It also gives the students larger lumps to digest between class meetings. I believe that larger lump to be sometimes too large. The “advantage” of block teaching is that the time for passing between classes can be rolled into the doubled-class teaching time.

Good tips:

1. You are there to learn. Take that seriously.

2. Don’t be one of the students whose name the teacher learns right away. Those are usually the troublemakers.

3. If you do not understand something, go to the teacher for extra help. The teacher will not consider you to be an idiot. It is a smart person to realize when he/she is lost.

4. Stay off the cell phone. You only think that you have it hidden. Even if the teacher doesn’t say anything, its use is noted. Use of a cell phone in class is an insult to the teacher.

5. Don’t cut class. The only time that a teacher appreciates it when a student cuts is when that student is a troublemaker (see suggestion 2).

6. Do ask questions and/or volunteer answers. Teachers like that as long as you also let others do the same. However, raise your hand first.

7. Teachers are human. They will make mistakes on occasion. Correct the mistakes using a polite question rather than taking a “hey dummy” attitude. The teacher will like and respect you for that.

Block scheduling is used to allow students to have fewer classes each day, but each class meets for a much longer time than a “traditional” schedule. This kind of scheduling is very useful in upper level classes where extended labs are an important part of the course. For example, a traditional high school schedule might allow a chemistry class to meet every day for 50 minutes. This would make it difficult for students in that class to complete labs that take an hour or more. If the same class was provided on a block schedule, it might meet every other day, for 100 minutes at a time. This would then accomodate the need for extended learning periods, without cutting into the time needed for other courses.

The block system is a system reffering to how classes are scheduled. You wont have as many classes as you would in junior high (I think you get around 4-5 classes a day). The thing is they are twice as long as normal classes. They keep it like this so instead of spending a whole year on one topic, you only spend one semester.

As for general high school tips, dont do anything stupid, and you’ll be fine 🙂

The block system is where you go to one set of classes for one semester (one half of the year) and then second semester you go to another set of classes for the second half of the year. The semester ends usually at Christmas break. Other helpful advice is you need to stay on top of your work because you have less time than you do during a traditional year long class. You need to make sure you are keeping up with your work because before you know it the semester is over. High school is different in that you must earn credits in order to move on to the next grade level where in elementary school you can fail a subject and still pass. In HS you must earn the credit for each subject or take that class over again.

I think the block system is where you have four classes a day for an hour and a half and then the next day four diffrent classes the next day the same way. My daughter is in her last two years of high school and she’s doing this.

tips – don’t slack off. all classes count towards your GPA and you do not want to regret your grades later. Also, make sure you take the SAT or ACT about after your junior year (most likely in the summer or fall of senior year).

In my case, I took 3 years of foreign language (a year more than the requirement in texas) and now I do not have to take any foreign language in college.

AP classes (when you get farther along in your high school years) are worth it, take the AP test if you are sure you know the material.

Block periods are when you have one class for a longer period of time but not everyday.

For example:

Mon.: Math 4 hrs; Science 4 hrs

Tues: English 3 hrs; Pys Ed. 2 hrs; Art 2 hrs

Wed: History 4 hrs, Language 4 hrs

etc..

My superb advice is to no longer waste anymore of a while attempting to connect already pre-prevalent friendship cliques. that’s no longer elementary to do even for individuals who’ve good social skills. Your superb wager is to look for others that don’t belong to a longtime clique. the wonderful thank you to do it particularly is to connect golf equipment and school events, as properly as going to each and all of the school events and events to observe. refer to who ever is sitting next to you, it’s going to be greater undemanding to start up a communication once you comprehend the guy there likes the comparable issues which you do, inclusive of chess, choir, basketball, soccer video games, and so on. there are dissimilar communication starters inclusive of,”have you ever been to most of the video games?, Who do you comprehend it particularly is playing?, i like your outfit, What type are you in?, who’s your admired instructor?” purely something to start up the communication. save in mind that the reason that others won’t refer to you too lots once you attempt to chat to them, won’t be that they do in comparison to you, yet that they do no longer comprehend you o.k.. additionally, individuals may well be as worried as you’re and don’t probable comprehend what to assert back. seem for different people who seem to take a seat down on my own, or walk on my own to type, those human beings probable might desire to make buddies purely as much as you do. they won’t be the “cool” human beings, yet might become the wonderful chum which you ever had. they’re greater companies to being dependable, being concerned, and giving human beings when you consider which you gave them some thing no person else had at school, and that’s an probability to be your chum.

Each period is 2 hours long but you only have each class every other day. Or some variation on that.