Kauchak and Eggen divide classroom time into five overlapping categories to explain classroom management in terms of time management: Available time is the total time available for school activities, approximately 6 hours per school day. Allocated time is time allotted for teaching and learning, approximately 4 hours and 45 minutes. Instructional time is when actual teaching and learning occurs after routines. Engaged time is when students actively participate in learning activities, approximately 2 hours. Academic learning time is when students are actively and successfully engaged in learning and is maximized through effective classroom management, approximately 48 minutes per day.

1. Alladin Daliva
BSEd 1D English
Tarlac State University · College of Education
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This is as part of the general topic Classroom Management.

2. ~ Kauchak, D., and Eggen, P. (2008). Introduction to teaching:
Becoming a professional (3rd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ:
Pearson Education, Inc.
(Wikipedia.com)
• In their introductory text on teaching…they
explain classroom management in terms of
time management.
• The goal of classroom management, to
Kauchak and Eggen, is to not only maintain
order but to optimize student learning.

3. They divide class time into four
overlapping categories, namely:
•Available Time
•Allocated Time
•Instructional Time
•Engaged Time
•Academic Learning Time

4. Available Time
•the amount of time available for all
school activities.
•Available Time was approximately
6 hours per school day.

5. Allocated time
• Is the total time allotted for teaching,
learning, and routine classroom
procedures like attendance and
announcements.
• Is also what appears on a student's
schedule, for example,
"Introductory Algebra: 9:50-10:30 a.m.”
or “Lunch 11:30-1:00 p.m."

6. •approximately 4 hours
and 45 minutes of the
Available Time

7. Instructional time
• is what remains after routine classroom
procedures are completed. That is to say,
instructional time is the time wherein teaching
and learning actually takes place.
• Teachers may spend two or three minutes taking
attendance, for example, before their instruction
begins.

8. Engaged time
• is also called time on task.
• During engaged time, students are
participating actively in learning activities—
asking and responding to questions,
completing worksheets and exercises,
preparing skits and presentations, etc.

9. •approximately 2 hours
of Available Time

10. Academic Learning Time (ALT)
• Academic learning time occurs when
students
1)participate actively, and
2) are successful in learning activities.
• Effective classroom management
maximizes academic learning time.

11. •approximately 48
minutes of the Available
Time of 6 hours per day.

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