Teaching How Boys Learn

Posted by Barbara Pytel May 2, 2008

There has been so much information recently on how boys learn differently than girls do. While most of us have heard or read about academies for boys springing up all over the nation and same sex classrooms, do we really know how to teach girls and boys differently? Some books are being written on this topic to enlighten us.

Principal Kelly King has written the book, Strategies for Teaching Boys and Girls. Her school was recently mentioned in the Newsweek article on educating boys. This information comes in both elementary and secondary levels.

Other books are Teaching the Male Brain: How Boys Think by Abigail Norfleet James; The Boys and Girls Learn Differently by Michael Gurian; The Minds of Boys: Saving Our Sons From Failure by Michael Gurian and Why Gender Matters by Leonard Sax. Strategies for Teaching Boys and Girls—Secondary level: A Workbook for Educators by Michael Gurian is a guide for teachers using Gurian Institute’s research. The books are rated by readers on Amazon.com.

Who knows? Little changes in how we teach each gender could make a difference to our students.