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Introduction
Teach to Inspire Boys is an essential book for all teachers and schools worried about boys’ under-achievement in schools. Why do boys underachieve? This resource offers practical tasks to keep boys inspired in the classroom, and to give teachers support when they find teaching boys a challenge.
Benefits
Teach to Inspire Boys will provide you with:
- Practical tasks for individual teachers and whole staff teams to help you analyse the current provision for boys in your school
- Guide you in developing work to inspire boys
- Sample pupil questionnaires
- A sample of each task to exemplify the work in hand, though there is also the option to print the worksheets from duplicates in the appendix or from the CD which is included in the book
- Practical ideas to try with either colleagues or the boys themselves. These ideas should be used as a starting point for your own thinking.
Summary of contents
While the problems are, in some cases, embedded in aspects of living that are beyond the school’s control, it is important that we are not overwhelmed by them. As educators we need to understand our pupils, work with them and try to challenge them. Our principle focus must be on what we can actually do; both in school and in conjunction with parents and the wider community.
This book is about working with those pupils who exhibit a range of challenging characteristics that are often associated with boys. The work outlined will not be appropriate for every boy and will sometimes include girls. The book is grounded in the day-to-day commotion of real school situations, including ways in which a school can interact with its community.
- The attributes of many boys, what we expect of them in school and how this sits with approaches to personalised learning
- A brief look at some research that will make sense of what you encounter in your school day-to-day and which will reinforce the approaches outlined in this book
- Some recommendations for additional reading including reports and guidelines by HMI, the DCSF, OFSTED and others. Much of the material recommended is readily available for immediate download from websites.
- in the school overall
- in the classroom
- through individual attention, and
- in the community, including the home.
The advice will be comprehensive but not exhaustive. That's because a central part of getting things right for the boys is the exact matching of your school setting with the needs of your boys. You must, from the start, select those approaches most relevant to you and add your own ideas to those outlined in this book. Use this book as a stimulus for discussion.
Chapter breakdown
Acknowledgements
How to Use this Book
Introduction
Part One: Understanding the Context
1 Boys: Anarchists or Ambassadors?
2 Boys: Born to Fail?
3 Boys: The 3 ‘R’s (Reports, Recommendations and References)
Part Two: Practical Strategies to Inspire Boys
Introduction
4 Inspiring Boys: Around the School
5 Inspiring Boys: In the Classroom
6 Inspiring Boys: Through Individual Support
7 Inspiring Boys: In the Community
Part Three: Supporting Your Development Plan
8 Strategies to Support School Development
9 PowerPoint Presentation
Bibliography
Part Four: Resources
Details
A4, printable from the CD-Rom or to copy from the A4 page; includes PowerPoint presentation and hardback binder
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