Based on his experience with the Copernican block scheduling plan used in British Columbia secondary schools, a principal identifies administrative challenges (abuse of tutorial time, uneven distribution of teacher-preparation time, teacher fatigue, pedagogical changes, and unrealistic expectations) and suggests ways to address them. Involving…

Describes an urban high school's homeroom classroom calendar that is maintained by students who are deaf and hard of hearing. The calendar is used to record students' schedules, including individualized education program meetings, assemblies, doctor appointments, and other events. It assists students in taking responsibility for their own…

Examined electronic game-playing habits of 900 children. Found that time commitment to game-playing decreased from fourth to eighth grade. Boys played more than girls. Preference for general entertainment games increased across grades while educational games preference decreased. Violent game popularity remained consistent; fantasy violence was…

Investigates the amount of classroom time devoted to actual text reading and writing or talking about what was read during the reading period in elementary classrooms. Finds that students spent only half as much time learning about reading and writing as actually reading and writing. (RS)

Argues that educators must "think outside the box" to improve school performance. Suggests several areas for expanded thought, including school size, curriculum coverage, grading practices, use of time, organization of students, time management, and belief statement. (PKP)

Data from Canada's Survey of Family Expenditures were analyzed using a time allocation model. Results confirm that having young children causes families to spend more income on home production and less on leisure. Market goods expenditures increase and women's home production decreases as children age. (SK)

A self-recording procedure to help three third grade behaviorally disordered students walk directly from regular to special education classes was evaluated. Students chose from an array of reinforcers for use when they had reached the classroom within a specified time. The intervention was effective in increasing the number of days students walked…

Discusses teaching methods related to timetabling and scheduling tasks. Analyzes a hierarchy of difficulties for the tasks. Reports success rates for each of the four difficulty types. (YP)

Describes the benefits of using DIALOG's OneSearch in conjunction with DIALINDEX when searching online databases. Interdisciplinary searching on multiple databases is discussed, time and cost comparisons are briefly addressed, and steps involved in a simple search and in a complex search are detailed. (LRW)

Pressure on physical educators to include more and more content in the curriculum limits the time available to develop students' functional physical and motor skills. This article highlights the effects of this trend and provides a method for evaluating the content physical educators can realistically teach. (IAH)

Time allocated for instruction and time in which students are engaged in academic tasks can vary. Research findings show that teachers' management of time markedly affects student learning, particularly in regard to what is produced during engaged time. (SK)

A second grade teacher describes how she trained her students as classroom aides to assist her in a variety of clerical and other nonteaching jobs. This system saved time for the teacher and helped students learn to lead and follow one another. (IAH)

The roles and responsibilities of educational interpreters for children with hearing impairments at the elementary and secondary levels are delineated, and a paradigm for allocating interpreters' time to diverse duties is presented. (MSE)

Identifies some characteristics of non at-risk prospective parents (239 young adults who were enrolled in introductory psychology classes) which may contribute to more accurate knowledge of infant development. Results are interpreted in terms of subjects' sex, gender role orientation, ordinal position in the family, and amount of time spent with…

Explains exploratory sequential data analysis (ESDA) and outlines ESDA characteristics that could help human-computer interaction investigators using sequential data make better conceptual and methodological choices. Behavioral, cognitive, and social factors are considered, and failures of expertise, time management, and databased problems are…