To do a schedule for pupils in a school-setting is a hard and arduous task for any school. The purpose of this study was to investigate the possibility to move towards an pupil-oriented scheduling process in which the pupils themselves was given the opportunity to assess when they wanted different school-subject taught. The research questions in this study were whether or not pupils had clear preferences on when subject should be taught and why they did. The paper also deals with the question if the teachers had a similar perception of scheduling as the pupils. The theory of choice methods was utilized in a web-based questionnaire that was sent to a middle-school (year 7-9). The result in this study shows clear preferences between subject on when pupils want them to be scheduled with theory-based subjects in the beginning of the school-day and more practical and esthetic subjects later in the day. The conclusion of this this study is that because there are clear indications of preference of when different subject should be scheduled. Schools could utilize the result to move toward a pupil-oriented scheduling paradigm which could increase concentration and reduce the onset of fatigue during long days and therefore increase the pupils learning ability and school results.

The purpose of this study is to describe some primary school teachers understanding of language development and approach of first and second language speakers with Arne Tragetons Writing to reading, for pupils in early ages. By using a qualitative method with interviews and participant observations and informal conversations, the basis for the survey was collected. Four teachers in three schools participated. The proportion of second-language pupils at each school was 35%, 17% and 0%. My theoretical starting point in the study was the hermeneutic research tradition, which has been used to interpret and understand the collected material. Theories of behaviorism, constructivism and socio-cultural perspective has been used in the analysis part of this study. Furthermore, the material has been compared against previous research on reading and writing development using computers. The development of reading and writing has been studied by the concept of functional reading and writing, theories of motivation, and pupil-oriented scaffolding of the proximal development zone. The results indicate that the teachers mainly use a sociocultural approach. They have a student close thinking in terms of both knowledge and interest in the implementation of teaching. The teachers take a positive view on learning with the aid of computer. They see the benefits that pupils have a good production of texts and that students have the opportunity to develop a meta-language through cooperation and dialogue when working with computers. A further result is that what is supportive for second language speaking pupils is also supportive for native language speaking pupils.