About the Author:

Arnold Pulda

Arnold Pulda teaches Social Studies at Doherty Memorial High School and Middle School. He received his Ph.D. in U.S. History from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in 1977. He has been using the Internet in his classroom since 1993. He has led many workshops and made many presentations on how to use the Internet in education. He is a Fellow of the Library of Congress and will be acting as a Facilitator for the Library's Institute for Educators this coming summer. His website is www.geocities.com/doctorgus. He can be reached at doctrgus@massed.net and would welcome comments on this article from other teachers.

Links and Resources

Online Interview with Chip Wood

The Responsive Classroom (Journal)

Article by Chip Wood "Time and Reform"

Education World

Advice from Harry Wong (Education World)

Advice on Block Scheduling (Education World)

Links and Resources

You don't have to read Piaget's seminal work The Child's Conception of Time in order to begin to grasp the issues of attention span, the school bell-schedule, and on-task time in the computer room. What teacher, after all, has time for such in-depth pedagogy? Chip Wood's book, Time to Teach, Time to Learn: Changing the Pace of School, is a good introduction to the subject of how teachers do and should manage time in the classroom. Some of his ideas are presented in an online inteview at http://www.education-world.com/a_issues/issues058.shtml. An article of Wood's titled "Time and Reform," is at http://www.responsiveclassroom.org/feature_5.htm . The educational journal "The Responsive Classroom" (http://www.responsiveclassroom.org/) is helpful for concrete, hands-on discussions of in-classroom issues and problems, including time, pace, and scheduling. Education World has many articles on classroom management, scheduling, the efficient use of time in school, and many themes related to getting started on the Internet for teachers: http://www.education-world.com/technology/tec_teacher.shtml . Harry Wong gives good advice on classroom management; see his interview in Education World, http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/curr161.shtml . On block scheduling, see http://www.education-world.com/a_issues/issues013.shtml.