Elementary Scheduling

WV Title I School Improvement Conference

June 17-18, 2009

Rhonda Jelich

WVDE RTI Specialist

ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SCHEDULING: Enhancing Instruction For Student Achievement

ROBERT LYNN CANADYMICHAEL D. RETTIG

A Valuable Resource:

Reasons for Building Master Schedules

• Eliminate “Walk Around” Scheduling

• Inconsistent Allocation of Time

• Fragmented Instructional Time

• Lack of Common Planning Time for Teachers

• Mismatch between Needs and Resources

Key Principles of Elementary Scheduling

• Focusing on the Mission

• School-wide Scheduling

• Collaboration

• Practicality

• Fairness

Getting Started

• Committees

• Collect & Analyze Data

• Partner with Other Schools?

• Provide Training & Support

• Support for the I/E Time

Tier 1

Tier 2

Tier 3

Data Available:

• www.mclassdirect.com

• Acuity

• Westest 2

• Others

Types of Schedules for Intervention & Differentiated Instruction

Delivering Intervention Instruction

Writing Workstation

LibraryListening

Computer Workstation

Teacher with an intervention group

Extra Time Intervention Support

Delivering Intervention Instruction

Push-In Intervention Support

Writing Workstation

LibraryListening

Computer Workstation

Interventionist with an intervention

group

Teacher with an intervention group

Delivering Intervention InstructionPull-Out Intervention Support

Writing Workstation Library

Listening

Computer Workstation

Teacher with an intervention group

Interventionist with an intervention

group

Delivering Intervention InstructionWalk-to-Intervention Support

Other Schedules

• Encore Rotation

• Acceleration Model

• Concept-Mastery Model

• Scheduling Students into Homerooms

Encore Rotations

Other Schedules

• Encore Rotation

• Acceleration Model

• Concept-Mastery Model

• Scheduling Students into Homerooms