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Separating genders in the classroom The most essential aspect of education is an open and

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Separating genders in the classroom The most essential aspect of education is an open and welcoming environment that promotes freedom in learning. This helps to ensure that one can confidently express oneself and not hold back. Being able to freely ask questions and share thoughts is an important key in being successful. In my educational career, even up until the present day, this has not always been the case. Sadly so, many students struggle with these things. I have had the privilege of the experience of being a student in a single-sex classroom. I myself am a female. There was a mirror class for males only. The class was Algebra A. The alternative high-school that I attended sectioned their math classes, and other genres of study, in …show more content…

There is tendency for less distraction when all students are concentrated in unity. This collaboration and teamwork also proves to be a pre-cursor for pupils in exhibiting boosted self-confidence and self-esteem; both being conducive in personal development and end results as parts of the learning process.

Smaller classrooms and reduced teacher-student ratios have definite benefits, these two circumstances are perfect examples of how an intimate community-like setting can be naturally created simply by mere physical changes. Separating boys and girls also does this in its own way. Myself, having been lucky enough to experience both conditions have been met with only truly positive results. I have been a member of a little community such as this and I felt, and continue to feel, special because of it. This connection is much like a healthy relationship with a family member that has immense effects on a person's well-being. Students are assimilated in a way, very much different than if they were part of a co-ed gender classroom. For this reason students are associating with one another in especially exclusive ways; each pupil has their own breakthroughs in morale. Trust, fairness, understanding, respect, less judging and more compassion for student's peers are consequences of this intimacy.

In single-gender classrooms a new dynamic of equality can be created. This dynamic can break down walls and expand growth. While the equality is

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