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Strategies for Teaching Boys and Girls -- Elementary Level
eBook - A Workbook for Educators
ISBN/EAN: 9781118041147
Umbreit-Nr.: 3832223
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 224 S., 2.97 MB
Format in cm:
Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 15.12.2010
Auflage: 1/2010
E-Book
Format: EPUB
DRM: Adobe DRM
- Zusatztext
- In his best-selling classic<i>Boys and Girls Learn Differently</i>, Michael Gurian explained the origin and nature of gender differences in the classroom. His important book explored the behavior teachers observed and the challenges they faced with both boys and girls in their classrooms. Taking the next step,<i>Strategies for Teaching Boys?Elementary Level: A Workbook for Educators</i> and Girls offers teachers a hands-on resource that draws on the Gurian Institute's research and training with elementary schools and school districts. The workbook presents practical strategies, lessons, and activities that have been field-tested in real classrooms and developed to harness boys' and girls' unique strengths.<p>The workbook is designed to help teachers build a solid foundation of learning and study habits that their students can use in the classroom and at home. It covers the key curricular areas and offers proven techniques to makelearning, no matter what the subject, more engaging for all students.</p><p>The workbook is an essential resource for all teachers who want to improve their practice and get the most from all students?whatever their gender.</p>
- Autorenportrait
- <p><b>MICHAEL GURIAN</b> is the<i> New York Times</i> best-selling author of<i> The Wonder of Boys</i> and nineteen other books, including<i> Boys and Girls Learn Differently!, A Fine Young Man, The Good Son, The Wonder of Girls,</i> and<i>The Minds of Boys.</i> He is a pioneer in the fields of family development and education and has appeared on<i>Today, Good Morning America, CNN, NPR,</i> and in<i>The New York Times, USA Today, Time, Newsweek,</i> and elsewhere.<p><b>KATHY STEVENS,</b><i>coauthor of The Minds of Boys,</i> is the training director of the Gurian Institute and has worked in education, child development, and the nonprofit sector for more than thirty years in programs as diverse as juvenile and adult corrections, cultural competency training, domestic violence prevention, and women's issues.</b><p><b>KELLEY KING</b> is director of the Gurian Institute Education Division. She has been a teacher and school principal for more than twenty years.