Common time examples
High schools:
International High School,
Long Island, New York*
Teachers and students are organized into six interdisciplinary teams.
Teachers have 70 minutes of planning time each day and a half-day each
week for staff-planned professional development. This frees up 500 hours
of professional learning time each year.
International High School
Sample Teacher Schedule
Period |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
1 |
Class |
Advisory |
Planning |
Class |
Class |
2 |
Planning |
Seminar |
Class |
Planning |
Planning |
3 |
Class |
Planning |
Class |
Class |
Class |
4 |
Lunch |
Class |
Staff Development |
Lunch |
Lunch |
5 |
Class |
Lunch |
Staff Development |
Class |
Class |
6 |
Free |
Free |
Staff Development |
Free |
Free |
Ball High School, Galveston,
Texas
Twice a month, teachers’ use their 90-minute daily prep period for
staff development.
Contact information:
Ball High School
4115 Ave. O
Galveston, TX 77550
Phone: (409) 766-5715
Elementary schools:
Hefferan Elementary School, Chicago, Illinois
Teachers teach four full days of academic classes each week, then spend
the majority of every fifth day working collaboratively in teams and attending
professional development. While the teachers are involved in professional
learning, students rotate through special classes including music, art,
computer lab, and science labs. The students begin and end the day in
homerooms.
Professional development day schedule - Hefferan
Students
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Literacy block in home room
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Teachers
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Literacy block in home room
|
11:00 am - 2:45 pm
40 minute specials/lunch on
a rotating basis, science lab = 80 minutes |
11:00 am - 2:45 pm
Professional development (including
80 minutes of common planning time)
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Contact information:
Hefferan Elementary School
4409 W. Wilcox St.
Chicago, IL 60624
Phone: (773) 534-6192
Camelview Elementary School
(grades K-2), Phoenix, Arizona
Along with buying time for a science and social studies substitute teacher,
Camelview provides teachers a 90-minute professional development block
of time four days a week, to work together. During this time, students
attend specials, including social studies and science.
Contact information:
Madison Camelview Elementary School
2002 Campbell Ave.
Phoenix, AZ 85016
Phone: (602) 664-7200
*Reference: Darling-Hammond, L. (1999). Target time toward teachers. Journal of Staff
Development, 20, 2, 31-36.
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