Educational 180 -- Now it's the boys lagging

What's a feminine oriented teaching style?

Dan

it is oriented to groups where the members of the groups can express their views, and grading is done for the group as a whole. Supposedly, females do better in these groups and are better protected from the more aggressive boys who clamor for the teacher's attention. At any rate, from what I have observed, this style of group learning is much more common today than it was in years past. I'm not knocking it really; my child is a girl and is benefiting. It used to drive her nuts that the boys were so dominant with their class behaviour.

Hi Kidd,

Sometime after I graduated HS they started to push full bore towards this whole right brain/left brain thing especially as concerns girls and math/science. I found this rather interesting as the majority of the students in AP or honors math and science were females in my school. It seems that many of the teaching methods were geared towards girls to correct this supposed inadequecy, and as a result boys have been neglected.

Solution? Not sure really, but I for one believe that a return to less gobbldeegook teaching methodology, maintaining classroom decorum (and eliminating trouble makers), age appropriate class size/length vs. breaks, etc. will go a long way. A return to academics, IOW, not social engineering.

Evie

at a most inopportune time, and find ourselves up the creek without the proverbial paddle. Kind of like the Chinese killing all the girls, and twenty years later - oops, I guess we needed them!

A chilling thought Kidd,

Is that countries like China and Korea (and anywhere with aggressive "population control" policies resulting in a surplus of males) also have governments with little regard for human life. The unintended consequences of such policies could be eliminated shortly by sending the men to their deaths in battle.

Evie