Why the school timetable is wrong

“Is there any research that says the school timetable we have adopted around the world is the right one?” asks Jared Cooney Horvath, a cognitive scientist at the University of Melbourne. “Believe it or not, there's little to none. Everyone just kind of assumes, this is what it's going to be, this is what it always has been. Let's go with it.”

On this episode of Podagogy, Horvath goes on to explore how we can translate the research we do have into insights about how we might want to structure the school day differently. During the Coronavirus, when schools are adapting timetables more than ever before, he has some rather useful advice.

So if we were to build a research-informed timetable, what would it look like?