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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Colin Noble; Wendy Bradford |
| ISBN: | 041520884X 9780415208840 0415208858 9780415208857 |
| OCLC Number: | 41488584 |
| Description: | xviii, 258 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. We are facing a crisis -- 2. How and why boys under-achieve -- 3. The importance of teaching and learning styles -- 4. How to organise a strategy to raise boys' achievement -- 5. One school's story -- 6. Making decisions about setting -- 7. Other whole school strategies designed to raise boys' achievement -- 8. Getting it right for boys and girls in the classroom -- 9. Raising achievement in English -- 10. Raising achievement in mathematics and science -- 11. Raising achievement in design and technology -- 12. Raising achievement in modern foreign languages -- 13. Raising achievement in the humanities -- 14. Raising achievement in the arts -- 15. Getting it right in the secondary school library |
| Responsibility: | Colin Noble and Wendy Bradford with a foreword by Ted Wragg. |
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Abstract:
This book offers clear and practical strategies to headteachers, classroom teachers and other professionals for ways to address the issue of boys' underachievement.
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""The balance of the book represents an effort to make teaching adjustments in the different disciplines that will improve boys' achievement without depreciating girls'. Perhaps the book is most valuable as a methodological handbook, something that can be appreciated without particular attention to the central stated problem." --Cal State Univ., Fresno."<br> Read more...
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- Boys -- Education -- Great Britain.
- Underachievers -- Great Britain.
- Academic achievement -- Great Britain.
- Sex differences in education -- Great Britain.
- Garçons -- Éducation -- Grande-Bretagne.
- Retardés scolaires -- Grande-Bretagne.
- Succès scolaire -- Grande-Bretagne.
- Différences entre sexes en éducation -- Grande-Bretagne.
- Geschlechtsunterschied.
- Schulleistung.
