Late Elementary And Junior High School Levels: Article Analysis

My article was about the dreaded freshman 15 and how it’s common for freshman students to gain weight during their first year. The article talks about if students actually gain 15 pounds just in their first year alone. Some studies have said that this is false, and the average weight gain is closer to around 7 and ½ pounds. While this isn’t so bad, the article goes on to show where all those calories will be coming from, and give tips as to how to avoid weight gain. The article mentions how to pick healthy food in the dining hall, and how to eat less while there. It advises also getting into habits of going to the gym and staying active alongside eating healthy. Lastly, it talks about snacking in between meals and drinking calories. The author

On January 30, 2006, Newsweek published a magazine focused on “The Boys Crisis.” There were many topics that were covered in the magazine in regards to “The Boys Crisis.” One of the main ideas that the author, Peg Tyre focused on was that the academic performance of male students are falling behind the performance of female students, throughout all grades, and that male students need to be more accountable for their actions through things like serving detention. While she wrote a lot about gender, pictures like the one that I have attached, of students at an all boy’s public school serving detention, were included in the magazine. This picture accurately depicts that Peg’s intentions were not to focus on male students alone but to focus on

Lately this “boy code” increases a problem of the gender gap between boys and girls in terms of academic, social, and work performance.

Margaret Wente essay, celebrate boys' boyness develops the theme that discrimination towards young boys in public schools is having negative outcomes on the productivity of boys in schools; ultimately causes negative effects toward their future.

There are multiple reasons why Kelley King, Michael Gurian and Kathy Stevens are on the pro side. For one reason, they believe that the differences exist due to boys being more interactive with certain topics and methods that don’t usually interest girls or vice versa. For example, the Wamsley Elementary School in Rifle, Colorado has both boy and girl students. However, in the past, the girl students over accomplished the boy students due to the school staff being more experienced in understanding how to teach girls than understanding how to teach boys. So, the school focused on teaching the boys with their own learning styles that are also girl friendly such as online courses. The result of this was successful as boys became more accomplished than they were from before. (Pages 147 – 148).

The writer explains how being gender bias affects girls, especially in education. The writer could have went more into the cause and effect gender bias has on boys. Teachers might have reason to specifically pay more attention to boys, maybe to keep them engaged. The teacher might know the girls are fine when she turns her back.

Her intention behind interviewing Leonard Sax for the interview was to provide teachers with the tools to better engage students based on their gender and as a result combat gender stereotypes in schools. The ideas presented would be easy to implement in the classroom, if the right balance of styles that work better for the different genders is found. However, while the techniques provided by Dr. Sax in the interview to help better engage boys and girls in schools would indeed be helpful, they are not helpful in reaching the goal to end gender stereotyping in education. By completely disregarding students who are transgender, gender queer, or gender non-binary, Dr. Sax and Angela Watson completely erase a community of students who exist in today’s schools. They also do not consider the issue that different learning styles do not always directly correlate to gender, and by suggesting they do are unknowingly contributing to gender stereotypes in

Throughout my entire life – just like anyone else – English and writing papers has been present. In our society, writing papers is a necessary part of educating our youth and helping them to become smarter individuals. For me, these papers have always been a dreaded experience. As soon as a teacher starts talking about a paper that is coming up, my brain instantly starts freaking out. From one-page papers that had to be written in middle school, to a twenty minute presentation I had to give at the end of my senior year – and everything in between – my fear of writing spans over most of my life and doesn’t seem to be getting any better.

This is a problem with race and gender. It calls into question if teachers would have reacted to a girl student in the same way. There is a stigma attached to

I would love to see a scholar get the permission to enter a pre-kindergarten or kindergarten class, and really intervene and control for ambiguous gender behaviours. The film states that in the earliest years of school, children create a hierarchy of power, with tough guys at the top, all the way to girls at the bottom. As well, the film mentions boys create a mean team who are against and mean to girls, even though some boys do say they secretly like the girls. I wonder if it is possible to create an inclusive classroom that reinforces non-binary, non-patriarchal gender relations. At the end of the year, would the scholar be able to see boys presenting themselves in a truer and freer way than a different classroom of same-aged children who were not controlled?

When it comes to the classroom, there are several differences between girls and boys. There are physical differences in the way their brains work, differences in the room temperature that is best for boys and girls, and differences in how girls and boys respond to various tones of speech (Sax, 2006). While girls prefer soft-spoken teachers, Sax (2006) notes that boys prefer to be spoken to “loudly and in short, direct sentences with clear instructions” (p. 195). According to Sax (2006), “the ideal ambient temperature for boys is about 69 degrees and about 75 degrees for girls” (p. 193-194). Further differences involve how boys and girls learn. McNeil states that “boys may learn better under pressure and when allowed to move around...while girls may perform better in group situations and with a lot of encouragement” (McNeil, 2008). Because of these many differences, it would stand to reason that boys and girls would benefit from being in separate classrooms. According to Hughes (2007), “the teacher would be able to concentrate on the learning-styles of each sex and use the styles to bring out the academic best in each students. Lessons and activities could be designed with a single-sex in mind” (p. 11). As Principal John Fox states, “the single-sex environment enables you to actually focus on the particular needs of each gender, and those needs socially and

Sociology of educational late blooming, an article published in Sociological Forum and written by Jack Levin and William C. Levin, looks at the timelines of common lifetime milestones and their importance in various cultures. Describing time and scheduling as an important social dimension, the authors explain the subject of timeline scheduling within a context of societal norms(J. Levin & W. C. Levin, 1991, p. 661). Milestones in terms of “proper” chronological age and the order of attainment are established by society and differ greatly from one culture to the next (1991, p. 662). Levin and Levin pick deviancy from the normal age-window for completing higher education, called “late blooming”, as their focus and note that the

The quality of writing is unacceptable. Three important qualities mentioned in the article that supports student outcomes were: graphing results of interventions, comparing pre-and post-intervention data and using systematic classroom observations. However, team members could not use these resources because they had no knowledge of their use. Only trained professionals, like Special educators and school psychologists received the training and skills to work these technical

On the other hand, Thomas argues that boys often have a hard time in the classroom when their teacher is female. According to Tony Moody, in Thomas' article, instead of encouraging the boys, female teachers may ridicule them for their aggressive behavior. This constant chastising is seen by male students and their parents as a lack of respect for the male student (121). However, Moody first came to this conclusion with the experience of his own son. Can a person who uses his own son as an example be taken seriously? After all, there are not many parents in this wold who will admit that their son or daughter could possibly be a troublemaker. Most parents are in denial, believing that their child is a perfect angel. I have experienced this numerous times when talking to parents about their children. Yet, students must get past this so called bias and grasp the concepts that will be the basis of the rest of their knowledge. Once a student has the basic concepts, the space shuttle can be boarded for the tour of the terrestrial planets.

Thomas provides various arguments as to how boys and girls are different; therefore they are treated differently in a classroom. It cannot be argued that boys and girls are different, especially at such a young age, but to say that teachers specifically do treat boys in a rougher manner would be going too far. Thomas introduces the idea that society instills ideas of prejudice towards women in young boys, so that when they do go into a classroom governed by a female teacher, they are predisposed to be defiant and unruly. In my opinion, it is unfair to judge teachers based on the performance of their students on various tests. Thomas's article introduces the idea that as the number of female teachers is increasing, the performance of boys in school is declining. One much question whether it is in fact the teachers who cause this