Same - gender classrooms as the tool to successful learning
It seems like every year now schools in America are facing some kind of a reform; among the changes, same – gender classrooms are making their comeback. Opponents of separating male and female students into different groups propose it will boost grades and improve test scores. They believe the main components single – sex classroom can provide on the road to success are: opportunity for boys and girls to learn differently, improvement of discipline, and minimizing the preference of gender – typical subjects.
Most of the time, benefit of setting different learning environments for boys and girls is connected to the studies on brain development. Human brain has been a fascinating topic for scientists for centuries. In the late 1800 the main focus of the studies was on specialty of each hemisphere of the brain, today it shifted towards studying differences in male and female brain. In 2004 a team of fourteen neuroscientists presenting three different universities studied thirty samples of brain tissue. Presented with a sample, they didn’t know if that tissue belonged to a male or female. And …show more content…
Behavioral problems in American schools seem to be increasing over the years and teachers spend large portion of their time in the classroom resolving conflicts. Proponents of same – gender classrooms argue that separation of boys and girls reduces the issue drastically. Thurgood Marshall Elementary School in Seattle, Washington, went through transition from coed to single – sex in 2000. At that point, Mr Wright, the principal, was concerned about the high number of discipline referrals he was seeing; the number of children referred to principal’s office reached 30 a day, 80 percent of them were boys. Results were astonishing: number of children referred to the office dropped from 30 to just one a
It seems like every year now schools in America are facing some kind of a reform; among the changes, same – gender classrooms are making their comeback. Opponents of separating male and female students into different groups propose it will boost grades and improve test scores. They believe the main components single – sex classroom can provide on the road to success are: opportunity for boys and girls to learn differently, improvement of discipline, and minimizing the preference of gender – typical subjects.
Most of the time, benefit of setting different learning environments for boys and girls is connected to the studies on brain development. Human brain has been a fascinating topic for scientists for centuries. In the late 1800 the main focus of the studies was on specialty of each hemisphere of the brain, today it shifted towards studying differences in male and female brain. In 2004 a team of fourteen neuroscientists presenting three different universities studied thirty samples of brain tissue. Presented with a sample, they didn’t know if that tissue belonged to a male or female. And …show more content…
Behavioral problems in American schools seem to be increasing over the years and teachers spend large portion of their time in the classroom resolving conflicts. Proponents of same – gender classrooms argue that separation of boys and girls reduces the issue drastically. Thurgood Marshall Elementary School in Seattle, Washington, went through transition from coed to single – sex in 2000. At that point, Mr Wright, the principal, was concerned about the high number of discipline referrals he was seeing; the number of children referred to principal’s office reached 30 a day, 80 percent of them were boys. Results were astonishing: number of children referred to the office dropped from 30 to just one a