Breaking Through Barriers to Boys' Achievement

ISBN: 9781408193549 出版年：2013 页码：181 Gary Wilson Bloomsbury Publishing

Educators have for many years sought to understand why boys underperform in schools adone about it. In Breaking through barriers to boys' achievemenprovides the full picture as to wages underachieve adone to start solving the problem. He presents the 28 barriers to boys' learning, including early language development, 'laddish' culture and lack of male role models. His emphasis is very much on turning out respectable young men who have a 'caring masculinity'.The second edition of this ground-breaking book includes revised and updated case studies, data and practical tips and advice on how to raise boys' achievement. You will find tried-and-tested strategies which will help you to:- effectively engalife of the school- engacurriculum, with particular emphasis on literacy- create the right culture for learning- develop emotional intelligence in boys- develop self-esteem- provide opportunities for reflection- turn the 'peer police' into a positive force for good- teach in ways that will hit all the right buttons for boys, but will not disadvantage girlsBreaking through barriers to boys' achievement provides a practical toolkit thevery teacher, department, key stage or school to determine precisely which barriers impinge upon their work wiplan a way forward. It also provides a range of whole-school models for developing effective projects for raising boys' achievement.