Four students have the same assignment due next class. One student does it that night. Two students take two days to do the assignment. Lastly, one student does the assignment the next night. All four students hand the assignment in on time and get full credit for it. How can this be? These four students attend Woodland Regional High School (WRHS) where they have block scheduling. In block scheduling students have four 80 minute classes on …showed first 75 words of 354 total…

…showed last 75 words of 354 total…it. A very good concept of advisory is that students keep the same advisor all four years of highschool. This allows the teacher to get to know and understand the student well enough to sense if something is wrong. The student gets to know the teacher not only as a teacher, but as a friend. Most of the time the student will be able to talk to the teacher when he/she is having problems.