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Scheffler, Israel – Teachers College Record, 1989
Seven educational states or processes which are popularly deemed vices are discussed, and the argument is presented that, when properly qualified, they are valuable educational goods to be wisely promoted or exploited by the sensitive teacher. These seven are: ignorance, negativity, forgetting, guesswork, irrelevance, procrastination, and…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Educational Practices, Educational Principles, Elementary Secondary Education
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Dessem, R. Lawrence – Journal of Legal Education, 1999
One of a series of articles on principles of good practice in legal education, this article focuses on the importance of spending time and energy for efficient learning. Discusses ways to optimize student time on task, faculty time on task, institutional time on task, and the overall time and attention devoted to teaching and learning within legal…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Educational Practices, Educational Principles, Efficiency
Fowler, Donna – American Educator, 1995
Describes how five elementary and secondary schools have successfully altered the traditional school schedule in order to develop greater educational quality. These schools give examples of using time more flexibly, allowing teachers to help slower students, helping teachers polish their lessons and go deeper into their disciplines, and providing…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Educational Practices, Educational Quality
Sirotnik, Kenneth A. – 1981
Data from observations of 129 elementary, 362 junior, and 525 high school classes were analyzed to raise questions about classroom environment and classroom practices. Results gathered from four instruments are discussed: (1) physical environment inventory, which recorded classroom architectural arrangement, seating and grouping patterns,…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Research, Classroom Techniques, Conventional Instruction