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School Time Table
At the end of this session, the participants will be able to:1.Describe the need of school time table2.Express four elements of school time table3.Construct time table of their own schools4.State general principles of Timetable construction5.Understand problems and issues in constructing time tablePresented and prepared by Mr. Saleem Tariq Ghayyur: tariqghayyur@gmail.comLecturer Department of Education, University of Sargodha, Sargodha, PakistanA
school timetable
is a table for coordinating these four elements:
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students
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teachers
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rooms
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time slots (also called periods)School timetables usually cycle every week or every fortnight. The phrase "School timetables"largely refers to high schools, because primary schools typically have trivially simple structures.
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Block 
: This term is ambiguous, but in this article it refers to a set of lessons of differentcourses that must be placed concurrently.
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Student body
: A set of students who are timetabled together, for example the 8A roll-callgroup.
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Band (or Cluster)
: A set of classes involving the same student body, which are thereforehorizontally linked, meaning they must be on separate periods
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Year group
or 
Year level
: A set of students at the same stage of their schooling, for example Year 6.
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Elective Line
: A block of many classes of many subjects such that each student maychoose one subject from the line.
 
The importance of Timetable and its uses
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With the help of a suitable timetable the teacher and the students retain interest in their work and they do not find their work of teaching and studying cumbersome.2.By working according to a fixed timetable efficiency is gained and the good habit of workingin a systematic manner is formed.3.This also trains the teacher and students to make proper use of their time.4.Due to timetable, the students know the work; they have to do within the prescribed timelimit. In this way they become clear in this regard to their objective and they don’t have towaste their time tin schools.5.The timetable also helps in maintaining discipline among the students. The timetable should be drawn out in such a way that the students do not waste their time in wandering about butremain busy in their work. It the time of the students is properly utilizes, they will be well-disciplined.
General Principles of Timetable Construction
The following are the general principles that should be borne in mind while drawing outtimetable.1.It is an ideal approach if we allow the students to choose the subjects they like to study indifferent periods, as is done in many developed countries. But due to our particular circumstances, it is difficult to do so. The reasons for this are the paucity of funds inschools, the shortage of teachers and the lack of proper accommodation. Besides, we donot have sufficient number of subjects that the students may choose from. Students selectonly subjects of a particular group and have to read them according to the timetable of theschools. So what, the interest of the students should be considered while drawing thetimetable so that that the students may get sufficient time to study the subjects of their choice.
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The aptitude of the student in regard to subjects may be found out in two ways. The firstis that the teachers may draw out a tentative list of the subjects for which the studentshave an attitude and then give them due place in the timetable. The second method of 
 
finding out the aptitude of the students is asking them to name the subjects of their choice. It is evident that the second method will be more suitable. In this way, thetimetable drawn out in accordance with taste of the students will be more suitable. But inour country, no attention is paid in this direction. In many schools timetables are drawnout before hand and in some schools, the students have to study according to the timetable of the previous years. It is generally seen that in higher classes, more than onesubject are taught in a period. So our students can not study more than one subject of hischoice at a time.
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It is also necessary to keep the course in view while drawing the timetable. The periodsfixed for various subjects during the week should be in conformity with the syllabus. Allthe subjects should find the space in time table and the number of periods for teaching of any subject during the week should be fixed according to the syllabus.
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Close contact between teacher and students are of great importance. Teacher may be of use to the students only when he has the necessary information about the students. Unlessthe teachers establish a close contact with the students, it will be difficult for them to payattention to their individual differences. The teachers in our countries regard it as sign of their superiority to remain serious and aloof from the students. This attitude is not proper and hence the timetable should be drawn in such a way that the teachers and the studentsmake up into as close contact as possible. For this purpose, occasionally such activitiesshould be organized in the schools which may bring the teacher and the students intocontact even outside the classrooms so that they may contact get an opportunity of understanding each others. This will also help in maintaining the discipline among thestudents.5.While drawing up the timetable, the headmaster or the principal should not consider theattitudes of the students. Only but should also pay sufficient attention to the taste of theteachers. Hence the subjects to be taught should be allotted according the abilities of theteachers. If the teacher is given the subject in which he is least interested he will not takeany interest in teaching it. And the students will not be able to drive full benefits from hisabilities. Thus most of the time of the students will be wasted.
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All the teachers of the school do not have similar or equal abilities. There are some whocan work more than others but the head master has to allot equal work in the timetable to
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