Have
you got the responsibility for scheduling the timetable in your school or
college ?
Do
you want to learn more about timetabling (scheduling) principles -- perhaps as preparation
for a career move ?
Are
you looking for a book to help you to understand the problems
involved in scheduling a school timetable
?
If you use a computer program (TimeTabler, SIMS Nova T6, Facility-Scheduler, etc), or if you schedule manually, it is important to understand the underlying timetabling principles.
This book explains those principles.
It will help you to timetable more effectively and efficiently.
Keith Johnson wrote the original 'bible' on timetabling.
Now he has revised and expanded it, with Mervyn Wakefield & Chris Johnson.
This new expanded book has 232 pages in full colour, with a CD included.
It covers the entire timetabling process, as detailed below.
Click to view some Sample Chapters, below:
The Contents of the Timetabler's CookBook
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Chapter 1. Timetabling
A flow chart of timetabling
A timetable of timetabling
Chapter 2. Planning the Curriculum
Curriculum notation
Diagrams of 22 Curriculum structures
Vertical curriculum design; diplomas, consortia
Managing change : the effect of innovations
Managing change : practical ways forward
Managing change : changing the timetable cycle
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Chapter 3. Option Schemes
Types of option blocks; advantages
Methods of determining the option blocks
‘Sixth Form’ options : Years 12 and 13
Chapter 4. Schematic Diagrams
Checking for impossibilities in your structure
Five worked examples
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Chapter 5. Staff Deployment Analysis
Contact ratio; curriculum bonuses
The Staffing Equation; Worked examples
Chapter 6. Collecting the data
The Curriculum Audit Form
The Staff Loading Chart
Using the spreadsheets that are included on the CD
Chapter 7. Timetable test 1 - The Combing Chart
The Principle of Compatibility
Drawing a Combing Chart; Worked examples
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Chapter 8. Timetable test 2 - The Conflict Matrix
Find impossibilities in your teacher-teams
Principles and worked examples
Chapter 9. Timetable test 3 - Accommodation
The rooming fraction
Priorities; Worked examples
Chapter 10. Other timetable checks
Zarraga’s Rule
Deciding priorities; part-time staff; split-site schools
Solving problems; Negotiating
How to look for more flexibility
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Chapter 11. Scheduling
Five timetable models
Ten rules for scheduling
Nine tactics and moves
When something won’t fit, what do I do?
Allowing for different period-breakdowns
Improving the quality
Order of scheduling; Worked examples
Rooming, Dealing with specialist rooms
Checking the timetable
Printing and Publishing your timetable
What printouts are needed? For whom?
How do you know if it is getting close to impossible?
Alternative timetable structures
Chapter 12. Scheduling ‘Sixth Forms’
Curriculum Diagrams for Years 12, 13
The idea of ‘spread’; Looking for more flexibility
Small and large Sixth Forms
When something won’t fit, what do I do?
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Chapter 13. Block timetabling
‘Consistent blocking’
Block scheduling in Scotland
Chapter 14. Scheduling in Primary Schools
Balance, and the Timing of subjects,
The structure of the timetable
Chapter 15. Timetabling by Computer
What to look for in a timetabling program
The 4 steps in timetabling software
What can timetabler software do for you?
Exporting the completed timetable to your MIS
Chapter 16. Doing the daily Cover for absent staff
Using Cover software
Appendices
A timetable of timetabling
A flowchart for curriculum planning and timetabling
Who should do the timetable?
21 curriculum formulae
Glossary of timetabling terms
How to use the CD
Index
‘Timetabling - A Timetabler's CookBook’
232 pages, in full colour, with over 200 illustrations, and a CD,
is available only from:
October ReSolutions Ltd
3 Crown Green
Lymm
Cheshire
WA13 9JG
UK
Fax : 01925-75-20-30
at a cost of
£29.95, including the CD and post & packing for delivery within the UK
(for delivery to an overseas address: 39.95 GBP).
To Order the book, there are 3 choices:
1. Pay by credit card by clicking here, or,
2. Pay by cheque using this form, or,
3. Be invoiced by quoting a school purchase order number on this form.
Publishing
history:
‘Timetabling’
was initially published by Hutchinson Ltd, as ISBN 0-09-141630-2.
It was then published by Stanley Thornes Ltd and Nelson Thornes Ltd, as ISBN
0-7487-1077-9.
This revised & expanded full-colour edition, now with over 200 illustrations and a CD, published by October ReSolutions Ltd, as ISBN 978-0-9561161-0-9
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