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Thinking Differently about Time: Part 1--Grades 1-9
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National Center on Education and the Economy, 2024
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…
Descriptors: Time Management, Influences, Success, Educational Improvement
Teachers in Need of Space: The Content and Changing Context of Work
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Mulholland, Rosie; McKinlay, Andy; Sproule, John – Educational Review, 2017
To further understand differential perceptions of work and wellbeing this paper considers the influence of gender and years in current role (YCR). We surveyed 399 secondary school teachers (class teachers n = 185; middle managers n = 175 and senior managers n = 38) from the central belt of Scotland. Sixty-six per cent of middle managers reported…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Administrator Attitudes
Academic Professionalism in the Era of Change: Role Subidentities and Transformation of Time Budgets
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Abramov, Roman Nikolaevich; Gruzdev, Ivan Andreevich; Terentyev, Evgeny Andreevich – Russian Education & Society, 2016
This article is based on a case study conducted within the National Research University Higher School of Economics (NRU HSE) that examined the identity fragmentation of academic professionals in the context of current educational and academic reforms in Russia. Seven hundred and five professors were surveyed for the study, which focused on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professionalism, Educational Change, Professional Identity
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
Who Dares to Disconnect in the Age of Uncertainty? Teachers' Recesses and "Off-the-Clock" Work
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Lindqvist, Per; Nordanger, Ulla Karin – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2006
This article addresses teachers' use of their professional time. With the support of substantive grounded theories from two separate studies--focusing on two "invisible" parts of teachers' work: recesses and off-the-clock work--we aim to conceptualize some patterns in contemporary work of teachers and discuss them in the light of…
Descriptors: Teaching Load, Working Hours, Grounded Theory, Teaching Conditions
Prepare To Meet Thy Mood? Teacher Preparation Time and the Intensification Thesis.
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Hargreaves, Andy – 1991
This paper identifies particular propositions and claimed empirical realizations that make up the intensification thesis and examines them with regard to their educational applicability, particularly to elementary teachers' workloads. The propositions claimed within the intensification thesis indicate that intensification: (1) leads to reduced…
Descriptors: Collegiality, Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers, Foreign Countries