Instead of traditional 40- to 50-minute periods, block scheduling allows for periods of an hour or more so that teachers can accomplish more during a class session. It also allows for teamwork across subject areas in some schools. For example, a math and science teacher may teach a physics lesson that includes both math and physics concepts.

A type of class schedule in which students have fewer, but longer classes per day. For example, instead of having six classes in a day, students might have three or four longer periods.

A way of organizing the school day into blocks of time longer than the typical 50-minute class period.  Students take as many courses as before (sometimes more), but the courses either do not meet everyday or do not run the entire school year.  One block schedule used in some secondary schools, known as 4 x 4, has four 90-minute classes a day with [..]

— a way of organizing the school day into blocks of time longer than the typical 50- minute class period; with the 4X4 block students take four 90-minute classes each day allowing for completion of [..]

Block scheduling or blocking is a type of academic scheduling used in schools in the American K-12 system, in which each pupil has fewer classes per day. It is more common in middle and high schools t [..]

Block scheduling or blocking is a type of academic scheduling used in schools in the American K-12 system, in which each pupil has fewer classes per day. It is more common in middle and high schools t [..]