Successful Single-Sex Classrooms: A Practical Guide to Teaching Boys & Girls Separately - Softcover

Gurian, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0787997323 ISBN 13: 9780787997328

Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 2009

Synopsis

This book is an essential resource for educators who are teaching or leading schools with single-gender classes, whether they're in public, private, or Catholic schools. It is a "soup-to-nuts" guide, covering everything from curriculum planning and classroom design to school policies and parent-teacher communication. Whether contemplating this new educational trend, or already working within one of the 12,000 single-gender schools, this practical guide shows educators how they can make the most of a unique educational opportunity.

Positioned at the forefront of brain-based learning, Michael Gurian's work translates and distills the latest scientific research into key points which can be immediately integrated into an educator's existing practice. The research underlines the importance of single-sex learning, and supports the creation and implementation of new strategies for accommodating the brain differences of boys and girls - at both the school and classroom level.

About this title

From the Back Cover

Successful Single-Sex Classrooms

From 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 community
• Cutting-edge scientific research on how boys' and girls' brains learn differently
• Ideas for relationship building in the single-gender classroom
• Proven strategies for teaching core curricula to girls and boys
• Helpful, classroom-tested teaching methods for language arts, math, science, and social studies

Throughout 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.

About the Author

THE AUTHORS

MICHAEL GURIAN is an educator and the New York Times bestselling author of The Wonder of Boys, The Minds of Boys, Boys and Girls Learn Differently! and The Wonder of Girls. The Gurian Institute, which he co-founded, conducts research and trains educators in single-sex and co-educational environments throughout the world.

KATHY STEVENS is executive director of the Gurian Institute, with twenty-five years of experience in the classroom. She is also co-author of The Minds of Boys, Strategies for Teaching Boys & Girls: Elementary Level, and Strategies for Teaching Boys & Girls: Secondary Level.

PEGGY DANIELS is a Gurian Institute master trainer with more than 30 years of experience as a teacher and administrator. At Carolina Day Middle School, she is principal of one of the nation's most successful single-sex programs.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0787997323
• ISBN 13: 9780787997328
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288