ALTERNATIVE TIMETABLING

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ALTERNATIVE TIMETABLING
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You can reach every student with the timetable..

• Remember to review student progress often
• Keep in mind that timetabling requires
  individualization to meet student needs

• Consider timetables that can be flexible to meet
  the needs of your most difficult to serve student

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Provide alternatives for a fresh start

• Provide a learning centre for continuous intake
• Offer credit recovery, credit rescue and credit
  completion to support students in their
  completion of expectation
• Provide opportunities for independent studies and
  on line course delivery

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Provide opportunities for a fresh start during a
semester

• Continuous intake co-op as an alternative to
  remain in a failing course
• Schedule selective courses in the same period to
  accommodate transfer from one course to another
  (MPM1D MFM1P)
• Deliver more courses in a half credit format

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Look for ways to layer on top of a regular
timetable

• School with-in a school
• find blocks of time with-in the day
• build outside the timetable like co-op
• run programs outside the day or year

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During the school day

• Develop a learning centre
• requires a larger room with computer access
• focus on students who need to catch up on credits
• use your student success teacher to co-ordinate
  instructional delivery

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Your learning centre needs to be flexible

• Some students working on full courses through
  on-line or ILC materials
• others completing courses through credit recovery
  or credit completion

• Find ways to support students falling behind in
  daily work
• ie point zero days
• ask teachers for work folders for students not
  handing workstudents work in centre for a day

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Package courses

• Provide 2,3 or 4 credit packages for a group of
  students with common needs
• have a double period block to accommodate double
  crdits
• operate 3-4 credit packages like co-op where the
  classes run on their own schedule

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Sample Progams

• ACES (Alternative Character Education students)
• ENG, HIR, PAD and IDC credits
• focus on outdoor education at field centre(20
  days)

• Manufacturing
• TDJ, TCJ,BDP and ENG
• hands on course to design, build, promote and
  sell
• field work to Habitat and other sites (20days)

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Sample 4 credit packages

• CHILDCARE
• HSP,HPW,ENG,IDC
• practical experience through weekly placements in
  elementary classrooms and pre-school faclities

• FREEDOM WRITERS
• EPS,ADA, ENG, HSP
• using the Freedom Writers journal as the core,
  students explore personal and social issues
  through journal,reading and acting.

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Outside the school days

• Look to programs which focus on literacy and
  numeracy
• programs such as Counting on You provide
  opportunities to work with students outside the
  day

• Be creative and find ways to have students
  complete credits while participating in the
  program

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Alternatives to summer school

• Find out about running a summer program at you
  site through Camp I Can
• focus on numeracy and literacy

• Provide opportunities for students in LDCC and
  applied courses to complete credits while at the
  camp
• design a summer co-op program to parallel the
  summer camp

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FLETCHERS MEADOW SECONARY SCHOOL

• A MODEL FOR ALTERNATIVE PROGRAMS IN A SECONDARY
  SCHOOL

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Timetabling students for the Specialist High
Skills Majors

• Each student must earn the prescribed " bundle of
  8 credits"
• Four credits called the major ( courses that
  provide knowledge and skills in the economic
  sector of the SHSM)

• Three or four other required credits. (Credits in
  English and other relevant disciplines each of
  these credits must include a minimum of 6 hours
  of contextualized learning
• Minimum of 2 co-op credits
• Half credit of GLC or GLD2O0

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Uses of the Multi will include

• Peer tutoring on Tuesdays and Thursdays
• school, department or grade directed initiative
• credit completion after semester one

• Literacy and numeracy initiatives
• assemblies/broadcasts
• cross curricular lessons
• assessment days

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REVIEW YOUR TIMETABLE

• What are the needs of students, staff and
  community?
• How do instructional strategies and assessment
  needs drive a timetable model?
• Does technology impact on program delivery?
• What is your vision?

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ALTERATIONS TO THE TIMETABLE

• Tumble
• Varying period lengths
• Staff use-block time
• School within a school
• Continuous intake programs

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ALTER THE TIMETABLE for a significant number of
students

• Focus on Alternatives

• Credit recovery
• Continuous intake
• 4 credit packaging
• Independent learning
• Online/E-learning
• Co-op alternatives