Educating Boys by Dr. Lizdelia Pinon

Educating Boys by Dr. Lizdelia Pinon https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys en-us 2022-04-28 14:25:12 UTC 2025-12-04 22:11:19 UTC hello@padlet.com Boys Vs Girls: teaching Strategies DrPinon https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2167346102 2022-05-02 20:18:23 UTC https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2167346102 Barack Obama Male Academy Dallas, TX DrPinon https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2173102456 2022-05-06 15:54:06 UTC https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2173102456 San Antonio Academy of Texas San Antonio, TX DrPinon https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2173107303 2022-05-06 15:57:15 UTC https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2173107303 All-Boys School Comparison DrPinon https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2173109228 2022-05-06 15:58:39 UTC https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2173109228 sulemasanchez1 https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2173136478 https://consortium.uchicago.edu/publications/teaching-adolescents-become-learners-role-noncognitive-factors-shaping-school

https://consortium.uchicago.edu/sites/default/files/2018-11/The%20Role%20of%20Noncognitive-Aug2017-Consortium.pdf

]]> 2022-05-06 16:19:26 UTC https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2173136478 Five Classroom Management Strategies That Work sulemasanchez1 https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2173139658 Be specific when identifying a problem behavior. ...

Set up the classroom environment for success. ...

Teach and reinforce new social and behavioral skills to preserve a positive classroom climate. ...

Actively engage students in tangible ways. ...

It's hard work!

https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/edlabs/regions/appalachia/blogs/blog23-five-classroom-strategies-that-work.asp

]]> 2022-05-06 16:21:40 UTC https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2173139658 sulemasanchez1 https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2189944441 Students have individual learning style preferences including visual (V; learning from graphs, charts, and flow diagrams), auditory (A; learning from speech), read-write (R; learning from reading and writing), and kinesthetic (K; learning from touch, hearing, smell, taste, and sight ]]> 2022-05-18 17:54:47 UTC https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2189944441 sulemasanchez1 https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2189946427 Thus, male and female students have significantly different learning styles. It is the responsibility of the instructor to address this diversity of learning styles and develop appropriate learning approaches ]]> 2022-05-18 17:56:03 UTC https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2189946427 Questions sulemasanchez1 https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2189948949 do men and women learn differently and/or have different preferred ways of learning? Are there male and female preferences in learning styles rooted in evolutionary biology and/or overwhelming social differences? Are these appropriate questions in this era of “political correctness” and why would we ask these questions anyway? We ask these questions because the answers may dramatically alter the ways in which we teach.]]> 2022-05-18 17:57:30 UTC https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2189948949 sulemasanchez1 https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2189950314 One way to improve student motivation and performance is to adapt teaching approaches to meet the different learning style preferences of our students (21). Learning style preferences are the manner in which, and the conditions under which, learners most efficiently and effectively perceive, process, store, and recall what they are attempting to learn ]]> 2022-05-18 17:58:24 UTC https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2189950314 Knowing the students' learning style preferences will aide in the development of the most effective teaching approaches sulemasanchez1 https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2189951517 2022-05-18 17:59:10 UTC https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2189951517 Modalities sulemasanchez1 https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2189954050 The three major sensory modalities are defined by the neural system that is preferred when receiving information: visual (V), aural (A), and kinesthetic (K), collectively known as VAK ]]> 2022-05-18 18:00:48 UTC https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2189954050 sulemasanchez1 https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2189956151 Students with a V preference learn best by seeing or observing (drawings, pictures, diagrams, demonstrations, etc). Learners that prefer A are best suited to learn by listening to or recording lectures, discussing material, and talking through material with themselves or others. R-type learners learn through interactions with textual materials. K-style learners perform best by using physical experiences: touching, performing an activity, moving, lessons that emphasize doing, and manipulation of objects. ]]> 2022-05-18 18:02:16 UTC https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2189956151 sulemasanchez1 https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2189960235 Student learners are capable of using all of these sensory modes of learning; however, each individual has a unique preference, or set of preferences, in which one mode is often dominant (8). Learners with a single learning style preference are referred to as unimodal, whereas others preferring a variety of styles are known as multimodal ]]> 2022-05-18 18:04:53 UTC https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2189960235 sulemasanchez1 https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2189963067 .VARK was selected due to its ease of use (a simple 13-question survey), its free availability online for both students in this study and for readers of this article who may wish to use this tool in their classroom, and its simplicity of online usage for students and instructors to learn more about their own, or their students', learning styles ]]> 2022-05-18 18:06:43 UTC https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2189963067 VARK survey link sulemasanchez1 https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2189964317 http://www.vark-learn.com/english/page.asp?p=questionnaire ]]> 2022-05-18 18:07:35 UTC https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2189964317 sulemasanchez1 https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2189968533 Download PowerPoint ]]> 2022-05-18 18:10:26 UTC https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2189968533 sulemasanchez1 https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190026595 https://vark-learn.com/the-vark-questionnaire/?p=questionnaire]]> 2022-05-18 18:50:25 UTC https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190026595 sulemasanchez1 https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190059368 2022-05-18 19:15:15 UTC https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190059368 sulemasanchez1 https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190059862 2022-05-18 19:15:36 UTC https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190059862 sulemasanchez1 https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190060846 2022-05-18 19:16:27 UTC https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190060846 sulemasanchez1 https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190062199 assess gender differences in learning style preferences

]]> 2022-05-18 19:17:41 UTC https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190062199 sulemasanchez1 https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190063610 Importantly, 87.5% of males but only 45.8% of females preferred multiple modes of presentation. Thus, in contrast to females, the majority of males preferred multiple modes of information presentation. Male students may adjust to the different teaching styles faced in a day or they may opt in and out of alternative strategies, such as being visual in cardiovascular physiology and reading/writing in respiratory physiology ]]> 2022-05-18 19:18:56 UTC https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190063610 sulemasanchez1 https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190064260 The knowledge of student preferred learning styles is vital if we, as educators, are to provide tailored strategies for individual students (11). Knowing students' preferred learning style also helps to overcome the predisposition of many educators to treat all students in a similar way (11) as well as motivate teachers to move from their preferred mode(s) to using others. In so doing, they can reach more students because of the better match between teacher and learner styles ]]> 2022-05-18 19:19:26 UTC https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190064260 sulemasanchez1 https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190065346 This may require instructors to stray from their own preferred mode(s) of teaching and learn to using a variety of styles, which will positively affect learning. By using a variety of teaching approaches, teachers will reach more students because of the better match between teacher and learner styles ]]> 2022-05-18 19:20:18 UTC https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190065346 sulemasanchez1 https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190066168 The key to retaining a broad swath of students interested in science is differentiated instruction, a teaching style that derives from multiple pedagogical approaches and not a singular approach ]]> 2022-05-18 19:20:56 UTC https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190066168 sulemasanchez1 https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190067201 a person's preference as to whether tasks or activities are presented to appeal to auditory, visual, tactile or kinesthetic senses (modality preference) is an important consideration for educators (4).]]> 2022-05-18 19:21:44 UTC https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190067201 sulemasanchez1 https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190068501 In addition, VARK encourages teachers to respect differences and reject negative judgments about learners. VARK promotes the idea that students are able to learn in different ways, providing that the methods of teaching are appropriate to the students' preferences. The approach encourages learners and teachers to believe that it does not matter how people learn as long as they do learn.]]> 2022-05-18 19:22:40 UTC https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190068501 sulemasanchez1 https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190069586 VARK also encourages teachers to reexamine their own learning and teaching styles. Finally, VARK encourages teachers and students to talk about learning and gives them a language (e.g., kinesthetic) that may legitimize behaviors, such as moving about the room, etc ]]> 2022-05-18 19:23:32 UTC https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190069586 sulemasanchez1 https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190072091 The “flipped classroom” approach of the active learning model incorporates in-class activities, group work, real-time surveys and other tools to help students apply knowledge through deliberate practice during class time.

]]> 2022-05-18 19:25:31 UTC https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190072091 sulemasanchez1 https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190075771 The “flipped classroom” approach of the active learning model incorporates in-class activities, group work, real-time surveys and other tools to help students apply knowledge through deliberate practice during class time.

]]> 2022-05-18 19:28:41 UTC https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190075771 sulemasanchez1 https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190076857 According to Gillborn & Mirza (2000) “the gender gap” has widened over the years in favour of girls, but Gorard et al. (1999) do not share this opinion, and wonder if boys did indeed achieve better than girls during the last couple of decades ]]> 2022-05-18 19:29:33 UTC https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190076857 sulemasanchez1 https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190077360 Firstly, vertical educational inequality relates to unequal opportunities among certain groups in society to reach a high education level. Indicators are achievement in primary and secondary school, level of secondary education, grade retention, early dropout, and graduation. Secondly, horizontal educational inequality concerns the differences between groups with respect to the distribution over educational sectors, which may l ]]> 2022-05-18 19:29:58 UTC https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190077360 In the discussion on “the boy’s problem” different explanations are given for the underachievement of boys. Three levels are discerned. What is remarkable is that some of these explanations are the same as those that until recently were put forward for the explanation for the underachievement of girls sulemasanchez1 https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190077965 2022-05-18 19:30:30 UTC https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190077965 sulemasanchez1 https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190078640 The suggestion that boys and girls supposedly have a different aptitude for particular learning styles – competitive versus cooperative – has also been dismissed in several studies. Other possible, explanatory pupil variables relate to attitudinal factors such as interest and motivation ]]> 2022-05-18 19:31:05 UTC https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190078640 sulemasanchez1 https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190079205 authors distinguish a male and female brain and conclude that this distinction has far-reaching consequences for the cognitive functioning and learning of boys and girls ( ]]> 2022-05-18 19:31:30 UTC https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190079205 sulemasanchez1 https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190079896 parental involvement and support is greater for

girls than for boys. One explanation is that it is mostly the mothers who support the children and that they have a preference for their own sex. In particular much weight is ascribed to the influence of peers in research into the boys’ problem, i.e. boys aspire to an ideal male image which clashes with the culture of a school, while girls develop an ideal female image which fits in very well

]]> 2022-05-18 19:32:06 UTC https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190079896 sulemasanchez1 https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190082027 the boy’s problem.” interventions used in the 1970s and 1980s to fight the educational delays of girls have now returned in a different guise to combat the so-called boys’ problem. ]]> 2022-05-18 19:33:54 UTC https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190082027 sulemasanchez1 https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190082475 a successful intervention from the past was to train teachers to deter gender stereotype behaviour by pupils when using computers. ]]> 2022-05-18 19:34:20 UTC https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190082475 social-cultural interventions sulemasanchez1 https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190083417 is to alter the anti-school attitude and disruptive behaviour of boys. Earlier on similar strategies were used to influence the gender stereotype choices of girls and their attitude to-wards science subjects – with little concrete results ]]> 2022-05-18 19:35:09 UTC https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190083417 organizational interventions sulemasanchez1 https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190084955 relate to the “de-feminization” of education by hiring more male teachers and introducing single sex classes for certain subjects so that pupils (boys) do not feel inhibited by the opposite sex ]]> 2022-05-18 19:36:33 UTC https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190084955 sulemasanchez1 https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190086119 In the past, research into single sex classes and schools has been carried out, but the presumed positive effects – with girls in mind at the time – have never proved conclusive ]]> 2022-05-18 19:37:33 UTC https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190086119 Research Questions sulemasanchez1 https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190089577 differences between boys and girls in primary and the first phase of secondary education (4- to 16-year-olds).
· To what degree does the position of boys in primary and secondary education differ from that of girls?

· Have any differences between boys and girls increased during the last decades?

]]> 2022-05-18 19:40:40 UTC https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190089577 Three Domains sulemasanchez1 https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190091299 · cognitive competencies (achievement test scores);

· non-cognitive competencies (e.g. behaviour, motivation);

· school career outcomes (e.g. type of secondary education, subject choice)

]]> 2022-05-18 19:42:09 UTC https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190091299 Results sulemasanchez1 https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190092911 it can be concluded that the cognitive competencies of boys and girls in primary education do differ, but these differences in general amount to no more than “small ]]> 2022-05-18 19:43:27 UTC https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190092911 sulemasanchez1 https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190093554 ). The relative position of boys and girls with regard to domain or subject varies. In general boys have an advantage in the domains of mathematics, world students and English language, while girls have a lead in the domains of (Dutch) language and reading.

]]> 2022-05-18 19:43:58 UTC https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190093554 sulemasanchez1 https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190094527 Boys somewhat more often were in the language special needs category (12 v. 10%) while girls somewhat more often were in the mathematics special needs category ]]> 2022-05-18 19:44:43 UTC https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190094527 sulemasanchez1 https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190095242 The results show that in some domains boys are better and in other girls. Boys are especially better in vocabulary (ES = 0.33), girls in literacy (ES = -0.39). In general, the differences are small to very small, however.

]]> 2022-05-18 19:45:23 UTC https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190095242 sulemasanchez1 https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190095947 Pertaining to social behaviour and work attitude girls were evaluated substantially more favourable than boys. And in addition to that, the gender difference in work attitude increases during the course of primary education. What is striking regarding motivation is that boys are much more focused on competition than girls. Girls in general do better on well-being and task orientation, but these differences are rather small. ]]> 2022-05-18 19:46:00 UTC https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190095947 sulemasanchez1 https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190096404 ). Boys were considered as pupils with special needs much more often than girls (30 v. 22%). Girls more often show language and mathematics delays and internalizing problem behaviour ]]> 2022-05-18 19:46:25 UTC https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190096404 sulemasanchez1 https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190096929 It should be mentioned, however, that in the years between second and eight grade more boys than girls had been referred to special education ]]> 2022-05-18 19:46:54 UTC https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190096929 sulemasanchez1 https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190097649 This table shows that with regard to some of the non-cognitive competencies substantial gender differences exist in secondary education ]]> 2022-05-18 19:47:34 UTC https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190097649 sulemasanchez1 https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190098339 In special primary education the pupil population for two thirds consists of boys. In special secondary education even 72% of the population is a boy and their share is on the rise. More detailed data show that especially in schools for pupils with behavioural problems boys are strongly overrepresented; in 2009 their share amounted to about 80% (StatLine, 2010). ]]> 2022-05-18 19:48:16 UTC https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190098339 sulemasanchez1 https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190098919 Such age differences indicate that boys have repeated classes in primary education more often than girls ]]> 2022-05-18 19:48:46 UTC https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190098919 sulemasanchez1 https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190099437 Regarding the non-delayed transition from one grade to another, regardless the level, girls in nearly all instances perform somewhat better than boys ]]> 2022-05-18 19:49:13 UTC https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190099437 Conclusion sulemasanchez1 https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190100546 The results show that regarding cognitive competencies girls do better than boys in reading and language. The differences in general are small though and apply to both primary education and the first phase of secondary education. Boys do better than girls in mathematics and science, but these differences are even smaller than for reading and language.

]]> 2022-05-18 19:50:15 UTC https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190100546 sulemasanchez1 https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190101032 In primary education boys are being evaluated much weaker than girls with regard to work attitude and social behaviour, and in grade 8 even more than in grade 2 ]]> 2022-05-18 19:50:44 UTC https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190101032 sulemasanchez1 https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190101462 Boys also indicate that they are more emotionally stable and have more self-confidence. And while girls are more socially motivated, boys are more motivated by competition.

]]> 2022-05-18 19:51:07 UTC https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190101462 sulemasanchez1 https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190102017 They also more often have to repeat a year or become an early school leaver. More girls than boys participate in the upper levels of secondary schooling, i.e. those that directly prepare pupils for higher education. Male pupils overwhelmingly choose science/technology and economics/business courses. Female pupils more opt for socially relevant courses (healthcare, welfare), languages or education, with They also more often have to repeat a year or become an early school leaver. More girls than boys participate in the upper levels of secondary schooling, i.e. those that directly prepare pupils for higher education. Male pupils overwhelmingly choose science/technology and economics/business courses. Female pupils more opt for socially relevant courses (healthcare, welfare), languages or education, with ]]> 2022-05-18 19:51:38 UTC https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190102017 sulemasanchez1 https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190103310 The results do indicate that there is currently a certain degree of vertical educational inequality based on gender that works against boys. Their position in relation to education participation level, lagging behind academically and returns on education is more unfavourable nowadays than that of girls ]]> 2022-05-18 19:52:55 UTC https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190103310 sulemasanchez1 https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190103830 In view of the global pursuit of a knowledge economy and the current shortage of science workers on the job market, this inequality is chiefly to the disadvantage of girls, even though this is not an unchangeable ‘given’. ]]> 2022-05-18 19:53:25 UTC https://padlet.com/DrPinon/EducatingBoys/wish/2190103830