The story at the beginning of the article made me think back to my own high school/middle school experience. I hated how short our lunch periods were in middle school. I didn't even bother eating lunch on most days because I did not have time to eat; I get sick if I eat too quickly and I did not feel incredibly hungry, anyway. By the time you have gotten your food it is time for next period. I hated my schedule in middle school and the classes themselves had nothing to do with my hatred. Forty-five minute classes are a joke. Sometimes it takes a teacher five or ten minutes to get the class started, so classes were more like thirty-five minutes long.
High school was much more productive. Hampden Academy had block scheduling, meaning only four longer classes a day rather than seven or eight short classes. Lunch period was a little longer, too, than my middle school lunch periods. Somehow the school found a way to trim our classes each a little bit in order to give us a longer lunch period, which I think the students all appreciated.
Having grown up in a different state, I had noticed that the Maine education system was a little behind my old school. I was happy to read in the article that Maine is number 15th in regards to education. Lecture based instruction is not a successful way to teach, at least if that it the only type of instruction that is used. The article points this out and also states that students must be challenged and engaged. I love that Maine educations are challenged to continue to increase the percentage of graduate student and that the numbers are rising.
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