The Flexible Scheduling Paradigm: The Prototype School

Authors

  • Yaakov Snyder Ph.D. from the Technion. I am an independent researcher. Two of the co-authors are Professors at the Technion. Two of the authors are software programmers. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8039-2478
  • Yale T. Herer Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
  • Michael Moore Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
  • Avishai Catane Senior Software Programmer
  • Richard M. Novak

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3991/ijet.v14i05.9683

Keywords:

Education reform, Educational technology, Mastery Learning, Flexible Scheduling Paradigm, Operations Research, Simulation

Abstract


The flexible scheduling paradigm (FSP) improves student learning by dynamically redeploying teachers and other pedagogical resources to provide students with customized learning conditions over shorter time periods called ‘mini-terms’ instead of semesters or years. By conceptualizing the school curriculum as a physical map, we customize the routing of students through curriculum using a core curriculum-targeted mastery-based approach. FSP increases deployed teacher effectiveness by making customized mentoring part of teacher’s regular schedules and by deploying teachers to their strengths. We establish a prima facie case for FSP by building comparative simulations of various schools as they are currently run (the Present Schools) and the same schools as they would be run with FSP (the Schools of the Future). Statistical results of the simulations confirmed that using FSP can increase key educational metrics including graduation rates, final course grades, mean grades in core curriculum, average teacher effectiveness, and the quality of teacher deployed expertise.

Author Biographies

Yaakov Snyder, Ph.D. from the Technion. I am an independent researcher. Two of the co-authors are Professors at the Technion. Two of the authors are software programmers.

Ph.D. from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology M.S. from University of California San Diego BA from Yale College

Yale T. Herer, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

Associate Professor, Industrial Engineering

Michael Moore, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

Associate Professor, Education in Science and Technology

Richard M. Novak

Senior Software Programmer

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Published

2019-03-14

How to Cite

Snyder, Y., Herer, Y. T., Moore, M., Catane, A., & Novak, R. M. (2019). The Flexible Scheduling Paradigm: The Prototype School. International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET), 14(05), pp. 75–96. https://doi.org/10.3991/ijet.v14i05.9683

Issue

Vol. 14 No. 05 (2019)

Section

Papers

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