Seondary teachers please help. No one believes me that boys and girls have different learning styles

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here Am I wrong?! Getting a bit jittery now...

Don't get started on multiple intelligences, they'll never believe that!

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They do but then the aim of teaching is generally to make students into balanced learners. The most successful (academically) students at KS4 and beyond tend to be those who are balanced learners. It's not just as simple as 'boys are this and girls are that', it's more of a continuous scale.

My own boys are very task orientated and competitive. they hate being given a project, but like being given small bite-sized tasks. At the moment they are in a primary school which is mixed but seems to have a very girl-learning-orientated style, so we are moving them to a boy's school where they can learn in a boy-learning way, before their confidence is completely sapped. (They have lots of contacts with girls thru other activities, so not concerned they will become isolated form girls socially)

meta anaylsis of multiple intelegences as an aid to teaching doesn't show that it has much benefit once the novelty wears off

Always good to have a variety of teaching styles, obviously, other than that you can labour the poitnt too much I think, kids ending up labeling themselves as 'Kinesthetic only' learners isn't that helpful