Focusing on eight instances of experienced and beginning teachers' work together in junior and senior high schools in a large urban district, this study explores the work of experienced teachers with beginning teachers, experienced teachers' perceptions of their role, and subsequent enactments. Mentors pass on to beginning teachers, through their…

This case study concerns an attempt to help a 15-year-old with the completion of written assignments and the development of time management and study skills. The document first presents the problem of the girl, Lisa, who could not complete longer written assignments due to an obsessive-compulsive anxiety disorder. The relevant history to the case…

This study was undertaken to generate and analyze survey data for evaluating time management practices among directors of large academic libraries. Questionnaires were mailed to 194 library directors and the 159 survey respondents (82%) provided information about their experience and other characteristics; how they allocate their time; to what…

This study examined how student teachers spent their time during student teaching and the structural conditions in the classroom that may have influenced these activities. Specifically, the nature of student teachers' activities was investigated relative to time spent in subject areas, grouping arrangements, and observing and teaching. Data…

Writers have noted how the concept of time is a key component of organizational behavior. This paper argues that an interpretive perspective on organizational culture provides a useful framework within which to consider time. The paper differentiates between rationalist and cultural conceptions of time and lays out a framework for organizational…

The Time Management Workshop for adult learners at the University of Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania) is described. It was developed when many adults, upon returning to school, expressed anxiety, questioned their skills and abilities, and reported study related problems associated with time management. Most of the self-instructional and workshop…

The Developmental Inventory of Sources of Stress (DISS) is an instructional tool designed to assist counselors, advisors, and faculty in reducing stress among college students (specifically, high risk college freshmen, although it can be utilized effectively with any college student population). The instrument focuses on sources of stress over…

A quasi-experimental design was used in an investigation directed at determining whether laboratory time in microbiology would be more efficiently and effectively utilized if scheduled as semi-weekly sessions of 1.5 hours each rather than as a single 3-hour session. Efficiency was measured by the number of procedural and data errors made by…

To investigate the relationships between television watching, spare time reading, homework, and scholastic achievement, the National Assessment of Educational Progress gathered data on television viewing habits. Younger students were more avid viewers than older ones. Half the 9-year olds watched over 3 hours of television daily; most 13-year-olds…

The organizational methods and devices presented in this booklet are designed to help the teacher use time in the classroom more effectively. The first section deals with efficient planning for the day and setting priorities. In section two, suggestions are given for reducing the paper load by creating orderly systems for handling written…

A process-product study explored the relationship between quantity and quality of time spent on reading instruction and student achievement in reading. Subjects, 22 third and fourth grade teachers and their 480 students in a small school district in the Piedmont region of South Carolina, used self-report logs to record the quantity of time devoted…

This handbook addresses the concerns and needs of beginning teachers in the sequence in which they often arise. The first two sections offer a checklist of things to attend to before the beginning of school, tips on the physical and visual classroom environment, a supplies checklist, and suggestions ranging from organizing the classroom and making…

Classroom observation of four student teachers during the first, seventh, and fourteenth weeks of their teaching semester focused on their management of transition periods between lesson segments. Videotapes and stimulated recall analysis of the differences revealed that: (1) the most effective student teachers averaged fewer transitions per…

This sequel to the study, "New Perspectives on Curriculum Implementation" (1981), was desgiend to ensure that curriculum planners have ready access to concrete planning strategies for effective curriculum implementation at the local level. In the first section, a review of the literature offers users' and organizations' perspectives on…

The Coalition Concerned with Adolescent Pregnancy is sponsoring a project entitled Planning Programs for Young Adolescents which focuses on after-school needs of children between the ages of 10 and 15 in Orange County, California. To determine these needs, needs assessment surveys were completed by 90 seventh grade students and 93 parents. The…