Time to Teach, Time to Learn: Changing the Pace of School

by Wood, Chip

• ISBN13: 9781892989017
• ISBN10: 1892989018
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-07-01
• Publisher: Northeast Fndtn for Children

Summary

In this groundbreaking book on school reform, Chip Wood boldly confronts the epidemic of busyness in our nation's K-8 schools. He shows how changing the way we use time will transform our schools from the "fact factories" they have become into the democratic communities of learning which they can and should be, schools in which the pace of the day encourages investigation, contemplation, completion, and community.

Table of Contents

Preface	1	(4)
Introduction: The School Zone	5	(6)
SECTION ONE: FOUNDATIONS	11	(60)
Time to Learn	13	(22)
Time, Growth, and Learning	35	(18)
Using Time Wisely	53	(18)
SECTION TWO: OBSERVATIONS	71	(110)
Floating on the Surface in Seventh Grade	75	(38)
On Your Mark, Get Set Seven Years Old in First Grade	113	(38)
Working to Be ``All There at Once''	151	(30)
SECTION THREE: TRANSFORMATIONS	181	(102)
Changing School Time	185	(32)
Changing the Structure of Time in Classrooms	217	(18)
Changing the Use of Time in Classrooms	235	(32)
Time to Teach	267	(16)
Afterword: Heroes in the Classroom	283	(6)
Appendix A: Standards	289	(4)
Appendix B: The Responsive Classroom®	293	(4)
Notes	297	(10)
References	307	(6)
Acknowledgments	313	(2)
Index	315	(6)
About the Author	321