In a class of their own: teaching tailored for the guys
http://url.edna.edu.au/5t4R
A boys-only kindergarten class at Bowen Public School in Orange is one of the first in NSW and is part of a strategy to tailor teaching to the special learning needs of boys. “It is beneficial to the boys in terms of self-esteem not to have the competitiveness of girls in the class and the ‘miss perfects’ who can often be a threat to boys and undermine their self-confidence,” according to teacher, Steve Jackson.
Sydney Morning Herald, 3 October 2006
C’mon! Don’t they get enough in life? We haven’t yet leveled the playing field and it’s being tipped back towards boys? Seriously!
If they are having boys only classes, where are the girls only classes? What about the research that says boys learn better in mixed classes than girls, while girls learn better in single sex classes? I really can’t understand the need for single-sex classes for boys at the pre-school level. And I’m flabbergasted that girls have been repositioned as competitive because they are quiet! All the talk about getting girls to loosen up, to participate in class and that’s now seen as an attempt to undermine boys?
Sheesh! The world turneth in bizarre ways.