Need ideas for rotations for 5th grade with 5 teachers (team is thinking about self contained)

Context:

5th grade in Texas

120 kids

50 min blocks

each block sees all 5 teachers each day

2 math specialized teachers, 1 science specialized, and 2 ELA/Reading specialized

We have been organizing the kids in 5 blocks based on where they are academically.

IE: Blue block goes to Math 1 -> science -> ELA -> Math 2 -> ELA 2

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Our team lead is thinking about going to self contained classroom over departmentalized. Last year with 4 teachers the classes are longer and she thinks that scores may have gone done some because of the new schedule. (Science has scores are good, Math scores are good, ELA scores have gone down).

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Does anyone have any ideas/suggestions/comments/solutions?

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Does anyone have 5 teachers on their team with something that is working well?

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Submitted November 28, 2018 at 06:24PM by Critterdward https://ift.tt/2BD2izc