Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- We are facing a crisis -- How and why boys under-achieve -- The importance of teaching and learning styles -- How to organise a strategy to raise boys' achievement -- One school's story -- Making decisions about setting -- Other whole school strategies designed to raise boys' achievement -- Getting it right for boys and girls in the classroom -- Raising achievement in English -- Raising achievement in mathematics and science -- Raising achievement in design and technology -- Raising achievement in modern foreign languages -- Raising achievement in the humanities -- Raising achievement in the arts -- Getting it right in the secondary school library -- Raising boys' achievement across the pyramid -- Exercises for continuous professional development -- Epilogue -- Literacy -- Celebrating achievement -- Target-setting -- References and further reading -- Index.

Boys' underachievement is grabbing headlines in the education debate, and it has never been more important to solve the problem. This book offers clear and practical strategies to headteachers, classroom teachers and other professionals for ways to address the issue. The book looks at: *reasons for boys' underachievement *ways of adapting teaching styles to maximise learning gains for boys ... and girls *guidance on how to plan successful pyramid, whole-school and classroom approaches *practical strategies for subject leaders and teachers *examples of successful case studies After introductory chapters examining whole-school issues and strategies there are further subject-specific chapters that advise on particular teaching approaches.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.