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The Well-Balanced Teacher: How to Work Smarter and Stay Sane Inside the Classroom and Out
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Anderson, Mike – ASCD, 2010
While there are already loads of books about how to deal with stress and take care of your health, at last here's one that takes into account a teacher's heavy workload and busy lifestyle. The author, an experienced teacher himself, avoids the blithe simplicity of typical "self-help" books to give you factual evidence, realistic steps, and…
Descriptors: Teaching Load, Teaching (Occupation), Stress Variables, Stress Management
Improving Learning in All-Day Schools: Results of a New Teaching Time Model
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Pfeifer, Michael; Holtappels, Heinz Gunter – European Educational Research Journal, 2008
Following the results of the Programme for International Student Assessment for Germany, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research founded the capital investment program "Future Education and Care" as a federal measure to support the expansion of all-day schooling in Germany. During this process it became obvious that learning and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Schedules, Socioeconomic Status, Time Management
Workload and Willingness to Change: Disentangling the Experience of Intensification
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Ballet, Katrijn; Kelchtermans, Geert – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2008
Teachers are facing an increasing number of changes in their job context, many of which significantly affect their work lives. This study offers a theoretical understanding of the changes in teachers' working conditions, starting from the intensification thesis. The case study of a Flemish (Belgian) elementary school shows the existence of various…
Descriptors: School Organization, Teaching Conditions, Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers
The Class Moderator: A Job Description.
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Somers, Margaret L. – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1985
Explains how a student volunteer can improve teachers' productivity, efficiency, and teaching skills. Presents a description of job responsibilities.(EL)
Descriptors: College English, English Instruction, Student Role, Student Volunteers
Secondary Teacher Workload and Job Satisfaction: Do Successful Strategies for Change Exist?
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Butt, Graham; Lance, Ann – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2005
This article analyses the views of secondary school teachers involved in the Transforming the School Workforce: Pathfinder Project--a project designed to address issues of teacher workload and job satisfaction. The initiative was launched in 2002 by the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) to enable 32 pilot schools to explore ways in which…
Descriptors: Job Satisfaction, Secondary School Teachers, Teaching Assistants, Teaching Conditions
According to Whom? Helping Students Analyze Contrasting Views of Reality.
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Wolff, Mary Anne – Educational Leadership, 1986
Recommends the frame of reference method in helping students learn to recognize bias in the questions an author asks, the evidence gathered, and the conclusions drawn. Describes a high school writing-anthropology unit on the Kung San society. Discusses the potentials, problems, and school-linked constraints in using frame of reference models. (IW)
Descriptors: Anthropology, Bias, Classroom Techniques, Critical Reading
Understanding What It Means to Be a Teacher.
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Duke, Daniel L. – Educational Leadership, 1986
A professor of education returns to the elementary classroom as a teacher's aide and learns that administrators can support teachers by (1) working to eliminate fragmentation in daily routines, (2) protecting teachers from overextension, (3) focusing more on individual students, (4) promoting teacher collegiality, and (5) fashioning a school…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Education, Interschool Communication
Status of the American Public School Teacher, 1985-86. National Education Association Response.
National Education Association, Washington, DC. Research Div. – 1987
This National Education Association research survey forms a profile of the American public school teacher and provides information covering a 25-year period from 1961-86. The survey offers insights about trends in the composition of the teaching profession, the characteristics of teaching service, and the changing position of teachers in society.…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Minority Group Teachers, Occupational Surveys, Professional Development