Task- School time

 


We read a text in class about the results of exchanging playground time with studying time in the United States. The aim was to improve the academic scores lowering this playground time, but they didn’t get the expected results.

On the other hand, we saw in our internships that the class time has been reduced by about one hour per day and the recess time has increased by about five minutes per day compared to when we were studying in primary school. This means that we are in a different situation in Spain than in the USA.

Even though students can rest a little more, they study less. As a result of this, we think that there are many possibilities to be less prepared to deal with their problems in the future. For this reason, we believe that school schedules in Spain should change.

The main change which we thought is to increase the amount of time that students should be studying in class. We have been in classes which last forty-five minutes, making these too short to teach them something in particular, and the only productive classes were those in which we could mix two ‘class hours’ and get one and a half hours.

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  1. English with Andrea & MariaDecember 11, 2023 at 4:16 AM

    Very good post!! We did not know that recess had increased in Spanish schools. We think the same as you that primary school classes should be a little longer. However, we think an hour and a half is a lot, what do you think of 65 minutes?

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