Longer classes: what’s the verdict?

By Angeli Mehta2024-05-20T08:00:00

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Discover why one school has switched to fewer, longer lessons in a school day – and how it’s going

Is less more? A number of schools have increased lesson lengths from 60 to 100 minutes – three lessons instead of five. The pros: less teaching time lost from movement between classrooms; quicker to timetable; time to study topics more deeply; time for students to get more involved. The cons: More planning required; suits some subjects, like science, better than others; student concentration span.

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