Gender and Education (Hyperlinks)

    Gender Gap for the Gifted in City Schools
   This article is very interesting. I have heard that girls tend to do better in school than boys do and this website says that they are unsure why this is, they only have theories. One of their theroies is that the standarized tests favor the girls. "Among the most popular is the idea that young girls are favored by the standardized tests the city uses to determine admission to gifted programs, because they tend to be more verbal and socially mature at ages 4 and 5 when they sit for the hourlong exam." Because of this not many boys are places in the gifted programs. "A 2002 study by the National Academy of Sciences reported that boys were “overrepresented in programs for learning disabilities, mental retardation and emotional disturbance, and slightly underrepresented in gifted programs,” Girls and boys tend to learn in completly different ways and the standarized tests tend to favor the girls.
 
       Geneder Gap in Education
     This article is about how girls and boys use different senses and learn by different ways. And schools generally teach their students certain ways that tend to be more suitable to the girls than the boys.  "The researchers found that while girls can easily process language in the abstract, boys depend more on their senses. The upshot is that boys may need to be taught both visually and verbally, while girls can learn equally well through either means and presumably have an easier time with learning because of it."





      This youtube video is very informative. Towards the end of the video they talk about a solution to teaching boys and girls differently. It also talks about why it is that boys and girls tend to learn in different ways.


   In class I would like to talk about what we as future teachers can do to make sure our lesson plans are suitable for both boys and girls.