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Unit 25: Time Management

Importance of School Time-Table Notes
The school time-table is the specified schedule of school functioning. It has the following importance.
1. It provides the span of the school working hours.
2. The time-table indicates opening time of the school so that students and teachers must reach in
time.
3. It is a two-dimensional chart-horizontal dimension shows periods with its time duration, vertical
dimension indicates the class with section.
4. The periods and classes form a chart. In the chart of the cells- subject and teacher’s name with
days or daily are entered or noted.
5. The time-table provides teaching schedule of subjects teacher wise as well as classwise.
6. It indicates teachers work load interms teaching periods.
7. It guides the teachers, for their teaching duties and responsibilities.
8. It is used for making arrangement in the absence of teacher.
9. It helps in equalizing work load of teachers.
10. The students get informations about teaching subjects periodwise. They can prepare themselves
accordingly.
25.6.3 Important Factors for School Time-Table
Keeping in view the local conditions and the needs of the students, the shifts can be decided by the
head of the institution. The following factors must be considered while framing the time-table in
double shifts schools.
(1) Shorter Duration of Teaching Period : As compared to that of a normal high or higher secondary
school in all types of double shift schools, duration of teaching periods has to he shorter as the
time available is short.
(2) Disadvantages to Students and Teachers : Students who attend in the morning shift have to
reach in school quite early, even in the cold winter months of January and February. Similarly,
those who attend the afternoon shift will have to keep quite late. In fact, students and teachers
in the double shift school are in a disadvantageous and pitiable condition.
(3) Difficulty in Providing Co-curricular Activities : Because of the shortage of school time, the
students cannot be provided adequate opportunity of participating in game and co-curricular
activities.
25.6.4 Defects in the Traditional Time-Table

The following are defect of school time-table :
(1) Uniformity : The school days is broken up into uniform chunks of 35 to 50 minutes, allocating
certain hours per week to the study of individual subjects. The non-academic programme of
education finds no place in the daily time-table. It is a rigid time-table designed to accommodate
an educational programme consisting mainly of classroom teaching and testing of small, daily
fragments of knowledge is being denounced as out of data.
(2) Ruthless Master : With fixed provision of time and place the time-table puts teachers and
students in a kind of lock up. It tends to fix the nature of learning experience in a relatively
straight Jacker. Thus instead of serving as a good servant, it becomes a ruthless master; instead
of being the means, it becomes and end.
(3) One Sided : It does not contribute to the total growth of the pupil’s learning experiences. It
militates against the integration of various subjects. It does not permit students to work
continuously for two or more consecutive periods. It presupposes that a pupil can be a

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