How to ensure adequate teaching resources and teachers are available in the appropriate classrooms with the appropriate students – that is the perennial problem facing schools each year.
Educational timetabling has become a complex and time-consuming exercise, necessitating the balancing of a multitude of conflicting demands and constraints, with the goal of delivering a clash free timetable that will add flexibility and depth to the school’s educational programme.
Monitor Educational Services specialises in the provision of one and two day courses which will help to deliver good practice in the construction of school timetables.
The one day course deals with the planning of timetable requirements. It looks at the establishment of good practice in designing and costing timetable models and discusses how educational aims might be reconciled with staffing limitations. It also examines the various constraints which make timetables difficult to construct.
The two day course goes on to give some real practice in building a timetable. It will demonstrate how careful preparation and systematic construction can encourage the effective realisation of the curricular aims of the school.
The courses are suitable for both newcomers and for the more experienced timetabler.
Both courses deal with the general principles of timetabling but look at how computer packages might lend support to these principles. There is also some discussion on packages currently available.
Monitor Educational Services can also provide school based INSET and consultancy on timetabling issues.
For more information and for details of our 2010/11 courses please see www.monitortimetabling.com or call 01625 524474.
David Griffiths
Monitor Educational Services
1 Fulshaw Avenue
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5JA
Telephone: (+44) (0) 1625 524474
e-mail: info@MonitorTimetabling.com
