Strategies for Teaching Boys and Girls -- Secondary Level: A Workbook for Educators

About This Book v

The Authors vii

About the Gurian Institute ix

Acknowledgments xi

1 What Could They Be Thinking? The Science of Boy-Girl Learning Differences 1

2 Maximizing the Brain-Body Connection: Moving Through the Curriculum 17

3 Creating a New Playbook: Using More Visual-Spatial Strategies in Your Classroom 39

4 Building Learning Teams of Boys and Girls: Promoting Positive Social Development 59

5 Letting Them Lead: The Power of Choice on the Developing Adolescent Brain 69

6 When Am I Ever Going to Use This Again? Finding Ways to Make Learning Real 87

7 Reading Between the Lines: Figuring Out What Adolescents Will Read 109

8 Modeling the Adult World: The Crucial Role of the Mentor 127

9 After the Final Bell Rings: The Lives of Teenagers Outside School 141

Epilogue 157

Sources 159

Index 165