{"id":1612,"date":"2009-02-09T14:03:04","date_gmt":"2009-02-09T19:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/?p=1612"},"modified":"2009-02-09T14:03:04","modified_gmt":"2009-02-09T19:03:04","slug":"single-gender-classrooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/2009\/02\/09\/single-gender-classrooms\/","title":{"rendered":"Single gender classrooms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldonline.com\/opinions\/story\/1124412.html\">This article<\/a> came across my feed reader.\u00c2\u00a0 From the article: &#8220;The practice of separating girls from boys in the classroom was the norm decades ago. Now, it seems to be something of a new trend.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A few thoughts &#8230; I read a book on gender and computing that said that while girls do better in single gender classrooms (I think this was specifically wrt math\/science) boys do better in mixed-gender classrooms.\u00c2\u00a0 This article mentions that in one school, classes are multi-gender for things like gym and computer lab time which seems strange since the aforemetioned book identifies computer education as one of the areas where learning is most gender-mediated (and gym just intuitively seems terribly gender-mediated).\u00c2\u00a0 Finally, I would really like to know if anyone has tried to have single gender sessions a few times a week, then merging for classes.\u00c2\u00a0 Would this allow different learning strategies to emerge and solidify in the gender-specific classes and then, when shared in the mixed-gender session, students of all genders could pick the strategy that worked best.\u00c2\u00a0 Would this not work because students would judge strategies as &#8220;girl&#8221; or &#8220;boy&#8221; strategies rather than evaluatng them on their effectiveness or creativity?\u00c2\u00a0 Would the confidence in the strategies that might be built from the single-gender classrooms allow people to advocate for their approaches in a way that would convince their classmates despite gender prejudice?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article came across my feed reader.\u00c2\u00a0 From the article: &#8220;The practice of separating girls from boys in the classroom was the norm decades ago. Now, it seems to be something of a new trend.&#8221; A few thoughts &#8230; I read a book on gender and computing that said that while girls do better in&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/2009\/02\/09\/single-gender-classrooms\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Single gender classrooms<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[250],"tags":[106,21293],"class_list":["post-1612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gender","tag-education","tag-gender","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wnIz-q0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1613,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612\/revisions\/1613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}