Successful Single-Sex Classrooms: A Practical Guide to Teaching Boys & Girls Separately
Successful Single-Sex ClassroomsFrom the acclaimed Gurian Institute comes an essential resource for teachers and administrators who want to establish single-gender classes, and for anyone already working in schools—public, private, or parochial—with single-sex programs. The book offers educators important information about gender-based brain science and provides practical, effective strategies for single-sex schools and classrooms.In Successful Single-Sex Classrooms, Michael Gurian, Kathy Stevens, and Peggy Daniels—authorities on gender and learning—focus on topics that are essential to creating, maintaining, and maximizing single- sex innovations:Tips for creating a single-sex program in a school or communityCutting-edge scientific research on howboys' and girls' brains learn differentlyIdeas for relationship building in thesingle-gender classroomProven strategies for teaching corecurricula to girls and boysHelpful, classroom-tested teachingmethods for language arts, math,science, and social studiesThroughout the book are creative, practical, and easy-to-implement ideas for setting up boy-friendly and girl-friendly classrooms.Successful Single-Sex Classrooms will help to infuse a new level of excitement for teachers in their work with girls and boys, and ensure greater learning for all students in the classroom.