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Unit 25: Time Management

(6) Co-ordination of Efforts : The time-table should permit adequate co-ordination of efforts of Notes
teachers. The time should be provided for conferences and co-operative planning. It should
give free hand for adopting modern methods of teaching. Teachers should not be made slaves
to any static time-table. They should be entitled to make the necessary alterations.
(7) Providing the most Appropriate Work for Each Teacher : It allotting work to teachers, care
should be taken that each teacher is assigned those subjects which he is best qualified to teach.
Teaching load should be almost evenly distributed so that there may be no bickerings on that
score.
(8) According to the Needs of Every Pupil : A good time-table should make it convenient for
every pupils to take the optional subjects he desires.
(9) Variety of Work : Change of work is the best form of rest for both pupils and teachers. Children
should not be kept for too long at a stretch at the same subject or type of subjects which are
higher in fatigue-causing power. It will be better not to have the same subject for two consecutive
periods excepting, however, the practical subjects as Science, handwork, art etc. Easy and difficult
lessons should alternate. Physical exercises or music can be introduced between Mathematics
and Reading. Singins and writing work may not follow physical exercises. This provision should
apply to teachers also. For instance, a teacher of English or Mother-tongue should not have a
run of oral lessons one after the other; writing and composition lesson should alternate with
oral lessons.
(10) Provision for Best room and Equipment Utilization : The number and size of classes and
classrooms also affect the school time-table. In a school where two classes are held in the same
room, the time-table should be drawn up in such a way that one class may do silent work and
the other may, at that time, be engaged in vocal work such as reading. The fittings and furniture
available in the school also determine the time-table to some extent. Drawing and manual
instruction, require specially furnished rooms. All the classes cannot have those subjects
simultaneously, even though a particular time in the school days may be the most suitable for
them.
(11) Avoiding Incidence of Fatigue : Children get fatigued at certain school hours or certain days
in a week. Following are some measures that tend to minimize fatigue :
1. The length of the period should decrease with the monotony and increase with variety of the
activity required in the lesson.
2. There should be alternation of intense and of easier talks, mental and of physical applications,
of study and of recreation. Singing, marching or games, should interrupt sedentary work for
about one hour.
3. The “hard” subject should claim the best part of the day never during the opening periods,
but only after a certain momentum has been gained. The curve of power on a school day,
reaches its highest point only during the second and third periods, and them declines rapidly.
Similarly, in the working days of the week one is at best on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, but
lethargic on Mondays and Saturdays. Mondays following a visit home on Sunday. Mondays
are days of recollections. Saturdays are full of expectations, as on a Saturday, students should
think of visiting their homes the next day.
4. Age, physical conditions and season be considered while fixing the duration of periods.
Pupils, in lower classes, need frequent changes of occupation, with short periods to prevent
incidence of fatigue. Pupils in higher classes can have longer periods of forty to forty five
minutes’ duration each. During summer, pupils get tired very soon; hence shorter school
periods and shorter school day.
5. The size of the classes should be almost equal. Secondary schools have generally several
sections of the same class. There are also groups for optional subjects. These sections and
groups should be of uniform size. Too many large and small classes are not desirable interests
of the school.

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