Interesting article about the best way to teach boys

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here

Scary statistics right at the bottom - girls come out top in just about every subject .

I'd be interested in this please fn, but can't open the link, could you try again? TIA

Oops, let's try again here

still doesn't open - don't worry I think it's my Mac

No, I can't get it either. Shall I cut and paste it? It's a bit long...

I'll go on timesonline myself and have a look for it thanks

Interesting.

That's so interesting. It really makes you think doesn't it?

Never occurred to me that schooling has been 'feminised'.

I'm finding that boys are getting a really bad press at the moment. Makes me

This is interesting, isn't it?

DS1 has a male teacher for the first time this year (he's in Yr 2) who gets them to do lots of competitive stuff in PE. To my surprise and delight, DS1 loves it.

I'm not a teacher but the approaches described here sound similar to the ones the teachers in 'the unteachables' on channel 4 have used. The girls in that group responded to the more active learning styles just as positively as the boys.

my boys always thrived with a male teacher in junior school. i think it was an authority thing.

think its very interesting especially for fidgits.

girls always seem to do better in school, yet boys (men) are almost always in senior positions in work and paid more

This bit is v interesting when you read some of the threads on MN about primary teachers and their attitude to fidgetty boys:

Most primary teachers are women so have not been boys and if they don't have sons either they often don't have much patience with them.

Boys prep schools seem to me to meet their needs pretty well - loads of afternoon sports and activites in between classroom work.

The current emphasis on course work rather than exams seems to favour girls IMO. Ds's headmaster also says the current system favours girls working methods over boys'.

This is absolutely fascinating, particularly since I have two dss.

For myself I've always thought that I would have done better academically in a girls' school - felt really intimidated in physics lessons. So maybe the dss will be better off in a boys' school - but then again they have no sisters or similar-age girl cousins so perhaps they should have the opportunity of mixing with girls - it's all too confusing.