Boys and Girls Learn Differently!: A Guide for Teachers and Parents

Michael Gurian

John Wiley & Sons, Feb 28, 2002 - Education - 368 pages

At last, we have the scientific evidence that documents the manybiological gender differences that influence learning. Forinstance, girls talk sooner, develop better vocabularies, readbetter, and have better fine motor skills. Boys, on the other hand,have better auditory memory, are better at three-dimensionalreasoning, are more prone to explore, and achieve greater abstractdesign ability after puberty.

In this profoundly significant book, author Michael Guriansynthesizes the current knowledge and clearly demonstrates how thisdistinction in hard-wiring and socialized gender differencesaffects how boys and girls learn. Gurian presents a new way toeducate our children based on brain science, neurologicaldevelopment, and chemical and hormonal disparities. The innovationspresented in this book were applied in the classroom and provensuccessful, with dramatic improvements in test scores, during atwo-year study that Gurian and his colleagues conducted in sixMissouri school districts.

Contents

• INTRODUCTION: 1
• The Gurian Institute at the University ofMissouriKansas City: 11
• The Wide Spectrum ofGender in the Brain: 17
• Why the Brains Are Different: 33
• HOW BRAINBASED DIFFERENCES AFFECT: 43
• Applying the lntelligences to BrainBased Gender Difference: 52
• Creating the Ultimate Classroom: 67
• THE ULTIMATE PRESCHOOL AN D: 73
• THE ULTIMATE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CLASSROOM: 124
• Bonding and Attachment in Elementary Learning: 138
• How to Provide Discipline in the Elementary Classroom: 156
• Motivation Techniques: 167
• Innovations for Academic Excellence: 176
• Special Education Learning Disabilities: 187
• The Ultimate Elementary Classroom for Both Boys and Girls: 196
• Structu ral Innovations: 203
• Bonding and Attachment: 218
• How to Provide Discipline in the Middle School Classroom: 230
• Character Education: 236
• Special Education: 246
• The Ultimate Middle School Classroom for Both Boys and Girls: 257
• THE ULTIMATE HIGH SCHOOL CLASSROOM: 262
• EPILOGUE: 313
• ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: 323
• THE AUTHORS: 331

About the author

Michael Gurian is an educator, family therapist, and author of fourteen books, including the bestselling The Wonder of Boys, A Fine Young Man, and The Good Son. He is an internationally celebrated speaker and writer whose work has been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Time, and other national publications as well as on the Today Show, Good Morning America, CNN, and numerous other broadcast media.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Boys and Girls Learn Differently!: A Guide for Teachers and Parents
• Author: Michael Gurian
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2002
• ISBN: 0787959308, 9780787959302
• Length: 368 pages
• Subjects: Education / General; Education / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects