A few select schools have been turning away from the sound of the bell. In studies they found that the sound of the bell was distracting to the students. Instead several different paths have been taken. The first path was to use no bell at all; this caused students to be on all different times. The most recent one they have tried is classical music. The studies found that this created a non-threatening and non distracting way to have the students change classes. The music plays throughout the hallway time and ends when class begins. What do you all think of this?
posted by Theresa Milano @ 7:31 AM
2 Comments:
I think this is an interesting idea. I understand that the bell can be distracting and a disturbance to students, but to be so blunt, isn't that the point? I think it’s important that students learn a sense of personal responsibility when it comes to getting to class on time. Problems I see that could arise with using classical music are actually in the music classroom. If a band is playing or a chorus singing, will the students hear the classical music above the music they are engaged in? And also, school hallways have the tendency to crowded and often very loud. If classical music is played above of this and then it's stopping is suppose to be the students cue to be in class, who's to say the students wont talk over the music to the point of not hearing it when its playing or when it has stopped.
I actually remember this problem from the news years ago. A school had thought much along the same lines about the bell being distracting and also they felt the bell was causing the students to be irritable. They began using a low pitched buzz that they hoped would act in the same way as the bell, but be more subtle. Also, they felt the buzz would be at a frequency that it would cut through any over-bearing noise that the bell would other wise be lost in.
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