William Brannick's List: Single Gender

• According to Gurian, boys learn by doing and by moving their bodies through  space. The more emphasis is placed on the development of early reading skills,  and the less emphasis is placed on a healthy amount of movement and experiential  learning, the more disadvantageous our schools will be for males.
• Even though the concept of the square school with the square classroom with one  teacher to 20 or more kids has been around for a few hundred years, our boys are  still young hunters whose brains need the same types of stimulation to grow and  be healthy as did their male ancestors millennia ago.
• While it may be a cynical statement, I have often felt that co-ed schools are  girls' schools that boys go to
• and including more hands-on activities go a long way towards alleviating some of  the natural restlessness of boys and harnessing male energy in positive ways
• Just as we collectively addressed the needs of girls over the past couple of  decades and made great strides in closing their achievement gaps in math and  science, let us now turn our attention to our nation's boys and take equally  deliberate steps to assure their success in school and in life
• At some colleges today, boys are being given a boost in the admissions process  because they have become a minority.

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• Boys tend to need more direction, while girls work better in groups, and we are able to tailor our classes accordingly

• During a three-year study, trained observers visited more than 100 elementary school classrooms in Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, Virginia, and the District of Columbia and noted student-teacher interactions, including the following
• Boys called out eight times as often as girls did. When a boy yelled out, the teacher ignored the "raise your hand" rule and usually praised his contribution. Girls who called out got reminders to raise their hands
• Teachers valued boys' comments more than girls' comments. Teachers responded to girls with a simple nod or an OK, but they praised, corrected, helped, and criticized boys.
• Boys were encouraged to solve problems on their own, but teachers helped girls who were stuck on problems.

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• meaning boys tend to benefit from hands-on learning, while girls are better auditory learners who write and use more words.
• "calming chemical" serotonin and more testosterone, making them more fidgety, impulsive and competition-driven
• rest state," leading to "zoning out" or moving around to try to stay focused.
• five to seven boys in a coed class of 30 will struggle in a classroom where they need to "sit still, read and write a lot, and do a lot of busy work."

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