Sunday, August 29, 2010

Student Wants To Feel Teachers Boobs

"men as role models"

[ Stuttgarter Zeitung , 27.08.2010]

Stuttgart - With boys handled helpless, says the FDP politician Miriam greeting. Therefore, they often show weaknesses.

woman greeting, the coalition will develop a "separate boys' and men's politics." Until now, one hears little of it.
boys are often educational losers, and we want to change. Education begins in early childhood. Therefore, we prepare this summer for a joint request of the coalition parties, which will improve the quality of early childhood education. In autumn it is pursued.
Social origin stigmatized, and women are paid less at work and in leadership positions rarely seen. Why do we strengthen the boys' and men's politics?
Unfortunately it so that even in Germany there is a relationship between social background and educational success. But who says that we do not care more about? The issue of equal rights for women should not be neglected. But the boys have to take nonetheless increasingly become the focus, because we find that their specific potentials are not sufficiently promoted in the education system. Girls read a lot better. Girls are generally faster ready for school. We note that Girls with personal failure to deal more easily, boys respond with frustration. The proportion of boys who pursue a higher education career, is lower. The majority of students are female. This is reversed only if the child's question is for women.
Perhaps boys are not at a disadvantage, maybe they are, put it bluntly, only dumber and lazier than girls?
This is nonsense. Boys are often not promoted according to their abilities. It is so that boys and girls have different approaches. Boys are often rabauke, louder, have other forms of play as a girl.
What boys need to take hold?
The federal government is not as responsible in the first place. Education is individual states, and therefore we need to cooperate with the state ministries. We have to develop gender-specific teaching methods, the traditional gender roles and stereotypes into question. We need training for educators and teachers to respond to the needs of both sexes. We must also encourage the reading of boys specifically. We need a higher proportion of men in teaching jobs that can adequately respond to their gender.
want How do you motivate men?
The imbalance is partly due to the poor pay. I regret that, because the educators go daily with our children, so the future of Germany in order. So we have to set with better training and more adequate pay incentives. It must be countered but also the stigma of exclusion of men who choose these professions. The traditional thinking locates just a man in a police station rather than in the toddler group. This must change. We need men in schools and kindergartens.
There is little Evidence that the education of boys behind the predominance of women in educational occupations is due. Some call it a fad. Is that it?
No. There is strong evidence that there is a connection between the education of boys lagging behind and the lack of male role models. Boys with behavioral problems is often helpless and awkward deal. It is far too often and too quickly, ADHD (attention deficit disorder, d.Red.) Stated. The boys are then immobilized with a pill. This is not the answer to this challenge. This does not mean that we must not encourage the girls, we must broaden the perspective.
suffer from lack of role models but also girls ...
So everything looks, phases of teaching gender to hold, therefore, to separate boys and girls.
How should run for the practical?
It should be considered to teach individual lessons or topics trains purely male or purely female. Now I am not in favor of introducing a general separation, but certain topics are already for it.
For example?
It can be useful when it comes to education and sexuality in adolescence, the boys and the girls to have among themselves. Against common math schooling, in principle nothing. But girls do in math tend to be heavier, and perhaps they understand the connections in an all-girl group better. They dare to be more likely to ask questions because they have the embarrassment of the boys would be. The schools must be able to try out such forms.

Thursday, August 26, 2010

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East Bay School caters to boys' learning styles

[ San Francisco Chronicle , August 16, 2010]

Carolyn Jones, Chronicle Staff Writer

Like most boys, Joe Villeneuve's son, Dylan, is not one for sitting still.

"He's a bouncy, outgoing, happy kid who likes to explore and see how things work," said the Berkeley father. "He's always on the move. He is a boy."

And as every parent and teacher will attest, "always on the move" and a quiet, orderly classroom are not always compatible states.

But Dylan will soon be at a school where "always on the move" is not only prized, it's built into the curriculum. The East Bay School for Boys, opening Aug. 31 in Berkeley, is tailored specifically to boys' energy levels, brain development and love of taking things apart, scattering them across the floor and putting them together again.

The first week of school, for example, the boys will get hammers, power saws and wood, and build their own desks.

"We're going to allow them to make mistakes, experiment, be a little disorganized," said headmaster Jason Baeten. "It's going to be messy, but we think they'll fall in love with school."

Boys need to fall back in love with school, according to several recent studies.

In the past 30 years or so, boys have started trailing girls in reading, writing, grades, test scores and overall motivation, according to a report compiled by educators, sociologists and others who want the president to establish a White House Council on Boys to Men. In 1966, men earned 61 percent of the college diplomas in the United States , but are expected to earn only 39 percent by 2019, their report stated.

Boys are also more likely to be medicated for attention problems and learning disorders, and more likely to be held back or disciplined for behavior problems, studies show.

End to sitting all day

In many cases, boys are performing the same as they always have but girls have surged ahead academically, due in part to a general shift in curriculum favoring girls. It wasn't hard: More than 90 percent of elementary and middle school teachers are women.

Another factor is higher academic expectations placed on younger children due to pressure to raise test scores, teachers said. Kindergarteners are now expected to read, a task that's difficult for some boys because their language skills generally develop later than girls'. The result is that by first grade, many boys are already lagging and their self-confidence starts to drag.

"The structure of a classroom - sitting still in a desk all day - works better for girls than boys," said Marcia Bedford, an East Bay School for Boys board member and assistant head of school at Julia Morgan School for Girls in Oakland. "There's a lot of pressure on boys to hold it together all day and behave, well, like girls."

Boys schools blossom

East Bay School for Boys isn't the only new school to take on boys' education. Public, private and charter schools for boys are blossoming throughout much of the United States, according to the International Boys School Coalition.

"These schools take boys as they are. Instead of punishing boys for their activity, they embrace it and build the curriculum around it," said executive director Brad Adams. "These schools have had great success."

The Pacific Boychoir Academy in Oakland, an all-boys school that opened seven years ago, tailored its curriculum to boys. History classes focus on conflicts and action, teachers might cover four lessons instead of two in a 50-minute period in order to keep students interested, and boys get plenty of opportunities to run around.

Directed energy

"Boys are naturally competitive and we don't want to tamp that down," said school administrator Jim Gaines. "We want to give boys a chance to be extraordinary."

The hope for all these schools is to create a generation of males who are self-confident, capable and compassionate in a world where men's roles are in flux, Baeten and others said.

Joe Villeneuve is just hoping his son's natural enthusiasm isn't squelched by having to sit still at a desk all day.

"What a luxury for a school to say, we're going to use all that energy," he said. "We're not going to thwart it."


E-mail Carolyn Jones at carolynjones@sfchronicle.com