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It comes as no surprise to anyone who has raised or educated children that boys and girls are different. While environment and culture play a large part in socializing children into gender roles, the very nature of a child—including the gender—requires us to look at boys and girls differently at home as well as in the classroom. Absolutely equal—but different. How can you get boys to stop tapping their fingers or pencils on the table or desk, or jiggling their feet and look you in the eye while you talk to them? How can you get the attention of a boy who spends too much time gazing out the window when he’s supposed to be doing his work? How do you motivate him to turn in his homework? How do you engage him in learning? How can you get girls to stop worrying about impressing the boys and focus on learning math? How do you help them do as well in science and math as they tend to do in language arts? Boys account for up to 70% of failing grades, receive up to 90% of school disciplinary referrals and are 80% of the children diagnosed with ADHD. More boys drop out of school and fewer boys pursue high education than girls. Why? Girls outperform boys across the board in verbal skills, but often when they hit middle school their math performance takes a dive. Why? Scientific advances in the past couple of decades allow us to look inside the brains of males and females and see where actual biological differences occur.
This professional development will help answer these and other fascinating questions about how boys and girls learn differently—and you’ll have some fun in the process! Professional Development Training Session This session begins with an overview of the foundation of nature-based theory.
The foundation is established early in the session based on research in neuroscience and wisdom of practice from years of working with educators. The balance of the session involves participants in putting the research into practice, and answering the often asked question: “So, what do I do when I get back to my classroom tomorrow?” Strategies are shared to help teachers make math come alive, make language arts active and engaging, that make science real. Capitalizing on the need boys have to move while they learn, this session shows teachers how to put that wonderful boy-energy to work building connections that lead to learning, retention, higher grades and better test scores! At the same time, we explore how to implement strategies that help girls exercise the spatial part of their brain so that it helps them tap into the resources they need to do as well in math, science and technology as they tend to do, by nature, in verbal areas. During the strategy implementation part of the training, participants will use music, art, movement and to have a lot of fun, laugh, experiment, and learn how to adapt what they already do as well as incorporating new ideas that will engage their students like never before. If you hope to increase students desire to learn, light their passion to explore, in addition to decreasing discipline problems and improving performance, this training is just the ticket! You will leave the session with an action plan in place to test out the new strategies you have learned, connected to a support system to help you make the most of the new learning.
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