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Játiva, Ximena; Karamperidou, Despina; Mills, Michelle; Vindrola, Stefania; Wedajo, Hanna; Dsouza, Andrea; Bergmann, Jessica – UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti, 2022
Teachers are the most important drivers of students' academic achievement and they are at the heart of learning recovery efforts. Finding out the bottlenecks and necessary conditions for ensuring teachers' presence at school and in the classroom is essential. Time to Teach is a mixed methods research initiative that aims to find out the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attendance, Influences
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Northrop, Laura; Kelly, Sean – Reading Research Quarterly, 2019
In this study, the authors used the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998-99 to examine the instructional time allocation and instructional practices in eighth-grade English language arts classes for struggling readers, as measured by track level. The authors also analyze the titles and text complexity of the last three…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Reading Difficulties, Track System (Education), Time Management
Sebastian, James; Camburn, Eric M.; Spillane, James P. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2018
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine how school principals in urban settings distributed their time working on critical school functions. We also examined who principals worked with and how their time allocation patterns varied by school contextual characteristics. Research Method/Approach: The study was conducted in an urban school…
Descriptors: Principals, Elementary Schools, Urban Schools, Time Management
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Morales, Erik E. – Educational Research Quarterly, 2017
This case study documents a university and secondary school partnership designed to improve classroom management and student time on task at an urban charter high school. The initiative utilized the expertise and knowledge of college of education faculty to identify and ameliorate the high school's observed barriers to students' time on task, and…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College School Cooperation, Partnerships in Education, Urban Schools
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Rudo, Zena H.; Partridge, Mark A. – Regional Educational Laboratory Southeast, 2016
Charter school stakeholders in South Carolina, including officials at the South Carolina Department of Education, personnel at the Public Charter School Alliance of South Carolina, and leaders of South Carolina charter schools, expressed interest in understanding the leadership characteristics and practices of charter school leaders across the…
Descriptors: Leadership Qualities, Charter Schools, Educational Practices, Educational Innovation
Mercurio, Harry J. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This qualitative study examined the amount of time that fourth and fifth grade teachers devoted to literacy instruction within the time allotted to them within the daily literacy block. Prior research of the literacy block focused largely on primary grades (Allington, McGill-Franzen et a1.,2010; Cunningham & Allington, 2003; Morrow, 1992);…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Reading Instruction, Time Blocks, Educational Practices
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Powell, Karan; Helm, Jennifer Stephens; Layne, Melissa; Ice, Phil – Administrative Issues Journal: Education, Practice, and Research, 2012
Technological and pedagogical advances in distance education have accentuated the necessity for higher education to keep pace regarding institutional infrastructures. Each infrastructure--driven by a common mission to provide quality learning--interprets quality according to standards established by various governmental and accrediting entities.…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Distance Education, Higher Education, National Standards
Gosnell-Lamb, Judith – ProQuest LLC, 2012
With the advent of No Child Left behind in 2002, public education in the United States entered into a reform movement with mounting consequences and ramifications. This unprecedented federal in-road into public education became the umbrella regulator over programs, staff, budgets and students. The purpose of this quantitative study was to…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Administrator Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes
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Vannest, Kimberly J.; Hagan-Burke, Shanna; Parker, Richard I.; Soares, Denise A. – Journal of Educational Research, 2011
The authors examined, by direct observation and 1 hr interval self-reporting, teacher time use in 4 types of special education programs (adaptive behavior units, content mastery, coteaching, resource room). Over 7,000 pieces of data were collected across an academic year from 31 teachers in 24 schools within 9 districts in the Southwestern United…
Descriptors: Interrater Reliability, Special Education Teachers, Special Education, Classroom Observation Techniques
Schairer-Kessler, Cynthia J. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Much demand remains for teacher education programs to produce highly qualified teachers. Current trends show that almost half of today's preservice teachers are considered nontraditional in terms of age and life experience. The purpose of this study was to determine whether secondary education teacher preparation programs should differentiate…
Descriptors: Secondary Education, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Curriculum
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Fisher, Douglas – Educational Forum, 2009
Through focused observations of teaching practices in 15 classrooms representing 2,475 minutes, a number of instructional patterns were revealed. The majority of time students spend in high school requires that they listen or wait. Students are engaged in authentic reading, writing, and peer work for only a small fraction of the day. If high…
Descriptors: High Schools, Educational Practices, Teaching Methods, Classroom Observation Techniques
Bush, M. Joan; Johnstone, Whitcomb G. – 2000
This paper examines the implementation of an alternate block (A/B) schedule in three high schools in Irving, Texas. The purpose is to review how time was used in 48 randomly selected high school Algebra 1, Biology 1, English 2, and U.S. History classes. Of the 48 classes, 12 observations were conducted for each course. The findings revealed a…
Descriptors: Block Scheduling, Classroom Techniques, Educational Environment, Educational Practices
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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