Boys and Girls Learn Differently!: A Guide for Teachers and Parents
by Michael Gurian
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A thoroughly revised edition of the classic resource for understanding gender differences in the classroomIn this profoundly significant book, author Michael Gurian has revised and updated his groundbreaking book that clearly demonstrated how the distinction in hard-wiring and socialized gender differences affects how boys and girls learn. Gurian presents a proven method to educate our children based on brain science, neurological development, and chemical and hormonal disparities. The show more innovations presented in this book were applied in the classroom and proven successful, with dramatic improvements in test scores, during a two-year study that Gurian and his colleagues conducted in six Missouri school districts.
- Explores the inherent differences between the developmental neuroscience of boys and girls
- Reveals how the brain learns
- Explains when same sex classrooms are appropriate, and when they're not
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Some interesting parts...but many recommendations not doable for your average parent or teacher (e.g., small class size, multiple teachers per classroom, year-round school)...and some downright objectionable tips (shaming a child by making them go hang out in a younger classroom, sending child on a wild goose chase all over school in search of a book that doesn't exist). Is that really the best he could come up with?
Very insightful for parents and teachers, we should look to this for ways to improve the school system for all children
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Michael Gurian is an educator, family therapist, and author of fourteen books, including the bestselling The Wonder of Boys, A Fine Young Man, and The Good Son. He is an internationally celebrated speaker and writer whose work has been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Time, and other national publications, as show more well as on the Today Show, Good Morning America, CNN, and numerous other broadcast media. Michael Gurian is a therapist and educator who has worked extensively with families, school districts, churches, and criminal justice agencies. Big Brothers and Big Sisters use his training videos for parents and volunteers, and thousands in the U.S. and Canada have attended his seminars. He is founder, with Pat Henley, of the Michael Gurian Institute at the University of Missouri-Kansas, as well as the Institute's leading educator and consultant. He lives in Spokane, Washington. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- 370.15 — Society, government, & culture Education Education Theory of education; Meaning; Aim Psychology applied to education
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- LC212.92 .G87 — Education Special aspects of education Special aspects of education Social aspects of education Educational sociology Sex differences in education
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