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The Boys and Girls Learn
Differently
Action Guide For Teachers
The
landmark book Boys and
Girls Learn
Differently! outlines the
brain-based educational theories and techniques that can be used to
transform classrooms and help children learn better. Now The Boys and Girls Learn
Differently Action Guide for Teachers
presents experiential learning techniques that teachers can use to
create an environment and enriched curriculum that take into account
the needs of the developing child's brain and allows both boys and
girls to gain maximum learning opportunities. This important and
easy-to-use guide is based on the latest scientific scholarship on the
differences between boy's and girl's brains, neurological development,
hormonal effects, behavior, and learning needs and offers information
on what all children need to be able to learn effectively. Michael
Gurian and his colleagues applied these recent discoveries in
the
field
during a two-year Gurian
Institute pilot program in Missouri that led
to measurably better academic performance and improved behavior.
Teachers and parents alike have long intuited that boys and girls learn
differently. In this book, renowned educator and bestselling author Michael
Gurian
provides the brain-based research to prove it, and shows
the reader how to improve a child's education by knowing the very
nature of his or her mind.
In Part 1,
combining the
fields of neurobiology, anthropology, educational psychology and
sociology, Gurian
shows the reader how the growing child's brain works,
how girls' and boys' brains work differently, how hormones affect these
differences, and how acculturation influences the biology. Because Gurian's
research stretches to all continents, readers will be
intrigued to discover how worldwide are the gender learning differences
in the brain, and in homes and classrooms. Part I also looks at areas
of learning difficulty boys and girls suffer as distinct groups.
Part
2
provides solutions and applications. Gurian features innovations from
around the world, but focuses especially on innovations developed by
teachers in six school districts in Kansas City, Missouri, in which the
Gurian Institute trained staff to help boys and girls learn
differently.
Learning improvement in these school districts was marked, and their
innovations fascinating. By the end of BOYS AND GIRLS LEARN
DIFFERENTLY!, teachers, parents and others have a brain-based
understanding of the child they are educating, and know how to apply
what they know to distinct improvements in not only a child's general
education, but also in areas of difficulty related to being a boy and
being a girl.
Praise
for
BOYS AND GIRLS LEARN DIFFERENTLY!
"Guidance on how to create 'ultimate classrooms' at all grade levels."
Chicago Tribune
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"Calls for many changes if we are to make schools the
best that they can be."
American Secondary Education
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"Provides guidelines for brain-based innovations that will motivate and
inspire everyone teachers, parents, policymakers, and
caretakers interested in educating kids."
The African Sun Times
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"Combines theory and practical suggestions in an effective,
readable text. Recommended."
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