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Boys and Girls Learn Differently: Decriminalizing Movement

Explore the gender differences in learning and discover strategies to increase movement in the classroom, improve student engagement, and reduce discipline problems.

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Boys and Girls Learn Differently: Decriminalizing Movement

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  1. Boys and Girls Learn Differently:Decriminalizing Movement Short Presentations Series by Patrick Atkerson, Ph.D.

  2. Problem Students: Think of a student who has pushed your buttons.

  3. Problem Students Photo Source: http://activeforlife.com/should-boys-roughhouse-with-girls/#!prettyPhoto

  4. According to the National Center for Educational Statistics: • Boys account for 71 percent of all school suspensions. • Boys are 30 percent more likely than girls to flunk or drop out of school; • Boys are four to five times more likely than girls to be diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD);   • Women outnumber men in higher. • Boys make up two-thirds of the students in special education.

  5. Are Boys Bad? • Boys are treated like dysfunctional girls. • Most schools are based on a feminine learning model. • Educational Policies have encouraged schools to focus on girls starting in the 70’s

  6. Gender Differences in the Brain

  7. Basics of Brain Development in Boys and Girls • Boys • Left side language • Right side spatial Development • Testosterone • Cortisol- fight or flight • Girls • Uses both sides of brain for Language • Estrogen • Cortisol – tend and befriend

  8. https://creativesystemsthinking.wordpress.com/2014/02/14/understanding-how-our-brains-learn/https://creativesystemsthinking.wordpress.com/2014/02/14/understanding-how-our-brains-learn/

  9. Decimalize Movement

  10. How do we turn on their minds?

  11. Movement increases blood flow and enables learning

  12. How can you increase movement in your classroom with the intent to increase student engagement and decrease discipline problems? https://www.kidsinthehouse.com/teenager/education/learning-styles/boys-vs-girls-classroom?qt-more_videos=1#qt-more_vide

  13. Physical Space • Standing desk, wobble stools, stand at desk, creative seating.

  14. Activities • Tennis ball toss for rote memory spelling, math facts • Place questions around room • Reader’s Theater • Act Out: water cycle; part of story; historical event; spell with your body; body angles

  15. Brain Breaks • Cross lateral movement • Singing is a whole brain activity • Creative movement (be Johnny apple seed planting seeds) Photo Source: http://teachnowaug15c2.pbworks.com/w/page/100837258/FrontPage

  16. For More Information: http://videos.weebly.com/uploads/7/6/7/8/76783251/promo_850.mp4

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