Using time to enable success in teaching and learning is a critical part of every school's, district's and state's journey to success. It seems that there is never enough time in schools, and leaders struggle to make the most of what they have. How best to use this precious resource is a critical question. While time in isolation from other…

This commentary describes the limitations of 40-minute class period times. The forty-minute system makes hash of the lives of teachers, especially in small schools, and about 80 percent of high schools have fewer than two hundred pupils. These small schools crowd their forty-minute periods with as many diverse and unrelated activities as possible,…

Compares engineering faculty work load at Brigham Young and Purdue Universities based on an analysis of ten types of teaching assignments. Suggests that administrators adapt time measurement scales of faculty work load to include actual classroom time, preparation and follow-up, assigned research, personal development, committee work, and student…

Defines a full-time equivalent faculty member (FTE) as one having seven contact hours of teaching per week. (Editor)

As the first phase of a 2-phase cost study at the University of Toronto, a survey was made of the weekly distribution of time of full-time academic staff in 1966-67. This report presents the results gathered from 719 respondents to a questionnaire. For the purposes of the study, time distribution was divided into undergraduate instruction,…

FLEXIBLE SCHEDULING BENEFITS BOTH STUDENTS AND TEACHERS BECAUSE, IN ANY SPECIFIC SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM, IT MAKES THE BEST AND MOST APPROPRIATE USE OF TIME, SPACE, EQUIPMENT, AND TEACHERS TALENTS. SUCH SCHEDULING HAS BEEN USED SUCCESSFULLY AT MINNETONKA EAST JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL, WHERE THE SCHOOL DAY IS DIVIDED INTO 15 DAILY TIME MODULES OF 28…

Fragmentation of elementary school teachers' time and attention is an almost universal problem. Frequent coming and going of children to and from the classroom for legitimate purposes disrupts and distracts the teacher and other students. Children receiving special education services frequently leave the classroom for half-hour periods, thus…

Data from a 1-year survey of 40 vocational agriculture teachers in Nebraska are presented in narrative analyses and in six tables showing man hours worked: (1) By 27 duty categories, (2) based on student enrollment in vocational agriculture programs, (3) based on number of students in FFA, (4) according to conduct of young farmer classes, (5)…

The purposes of this study were (1) to determine whether selected factors affect the job satisfaction of business teachers in public high schools in Ohio, and (2) to determine whether teachers in Ohio's block-time programs are more satisfied with their jobs than teachers in traditional business education programs. To gather needed data, a…

Eleven articles, including an overview by Van Hattum, consider the nature of the speech specialist and his administrative responsibilities. The role of the speech clinician, as a professional person, is treated by Myfanwy Chapman; as a member of the educational team, by Frederick Garbee; as a consultant, by Gerald Freeman; as a counselor, by…