3A
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Work in groups. Read the blog post and match the titles to the parts
they best describe. There is one extra.
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1
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The most significant resource in life is time. Education is an investment
of time. A year consists of about 6,000 waking hours. By the age of seven
or eight, children in America, on average, spend about 1,000 of them at school.
As common sense would suggest, learning takes time. What exactly do we
mean when we talk about school hours, or a school day, or a school week, or
a school year?
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2
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Teachers should spend their time teaching, right? Well…The clock spins
in only one direction; each day, teachers have a limited time to inspire and
guide students through their lesson plans. Time at school has a rhythm to it.
Classes begin and end at certain, scheduled times, marked by bells, buzzers
or chimes. But do they have to be? Traditionally, school days are simply
chopped into class periods of equal length, but they don’t have to be. There
is some evidence that longer class periods may be
beneficial. For instance,
some schools create a mix of longer and shorter instructional segments that
differ from one day to the next.
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3
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When school lets out, does learning stop? It’s 3:00 in the afternoon on a
typical weekday. School is out. Where do students go next and what do they
do? In years now long past, moms stayed home. Kids would play or do their
homework under her watchful eye. That’s no longer the structure of many
families around the world. Nowadays, schools have involved themselves in
providing after-school programmes. How should these programmes be used?
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3B
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Discuss the questions below each part.
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