Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Brain-Based Research -- Creating the "Ultimate Classroom" -- The Gurian Institute at the University of Missouri-Kansas City -- Boys and Girls Learn Differently -- Patricia Henley and Terry Trueman -- I How the Brain Learns: Inherent Differences Between Boys and Girls -- The Wide Spectrum of Gender in the Brain -- How the Brain Works -- How Boys' and Girls' Minds Are Different -- Developmental and Structural Differences -- Chemical Differences -- Hormonal Differences -- Functional Differences -- Differences in Processing Emotion -- Why the Brains are Different -- A Brief History of Brain Difference -- The Role of Hormones in the Womb and at Puberty -- 2 How Brain-Based Differences Affect Boys and Girls -- Areas of Learning-Style Difference -- Deductive and Inductive Reasoning -- Abstract and Concrete Reasoning -- Use of Language -- Logic and Evidence -- The Likelihood of Boredom -- Use of Space -- Movement -- Sensitivity and Group Dynamics -- Use of Symbolism -- Use of Learning Teams -- Learning Differences and the Intelligences -- Time and Sequence -- Space and Place -- Applying the Intelligences to Brain-Based Gender Difference -- The State of Boys and Girls in Our Schools -- Advantages for Boys, Disadvantages for Girls -- Advantages for Girls, Disadvantages for Boys -- Applying Brain-Based Research to Gender Advantage -- Studies Based on Political Assumptions -- Creating the Ultimate Classroom -- 3 The Ultimate Preschool and Kindergarden Classroom -- The Foundation of Early Learning: Bonding and Attachment -- Handling Children's Emotional Stress -- Bonding and Attachment Solutions -- Day Care, Preschool, and Kindergarten Community Building -- The Case for Preschool -- Parents as Teachers -- The Parent Education Coordinator -- Nutrition and Learning -- Carbohydrates, Proteins, and the School Day.

Fatty Acids -- Dealing with Aggressive Behavior -- Aggression Nurturance -- Increasing Empathy Nurturance and Verbalization -- Discipline Techniques -- The Outdoor Classroom -- Directing Boys and Girls to Academic Excellence -- Teaching Math and Spatials -- Language Development -- Special Education -- Creating a Tribe: Bonding and School-Home Alliances -- Use of Psychotropic Medications -- The Ultimate Preschool and Kindergarten Classroom for Both Boys and Girls -- For the Boys -- For the Girls -- Tips for Parents -- 4 The Ultimate Elementary School Classroom -- Structural Innovations -- Use of School Time -- Class Size, Number of Teachers, and Teacher-to-Student Ratio -- Using Group Dynamics and Group Work as a Basis of Pedagogy -- Use of Computers and Other Media in Elementary School -- The Outdoor Classroom -- Bonding and Attachment in Elementary Learning -- Handling Students 'Emotional Stress -- The Role of the Mentor -- Community Collaboration: Mentors from Outside the School -- How to Provide Discipline in the Elementary Classroom -- Learning from Past Mistakes -- Discipline Techniques After an Offending Act -- Discipline Techniques to Prevent Undisciplined Behavior -- Motivation Techniques -- Character Education -- CHARACTER plus -- Integrating Character Education into the Whole School -- Dealing with Cruelty, Hazing, and Violence -- Definition of Terms -- Zero-Tolerance Policies -- Innovations for Academic Excellence -- Innovations for Teaching Language Arts, Especially Reading and Writing -- Innovations for Teaching Math and Science -- Standardized Testing -- Special Education, Learning Disabilities, and Behavioral Disabilities -- Class Within a Class -- Fast ForWord -- Other Spatial Stimulants and Use of Movement -- The Multisensory Approach to Reading Problems -- Cooperative and Competitive Learning -- Sports and Athletics.

The Ultimate Elementary Classroom for Both Boys and Girls -- For the Boys -- For the Girls -- Tips for Parents -- 5 The Ultimate Middle School Classroom -- Structural Innovations -- Separate-Sex Education -- Rites of Passage -- Use of Uniforms -- Classroom Size and Other Innovations -- Bonding and Attachment -- The Early Adolescent 's Drop in Self-Esteem -- Handling Students 'Emotional Stresses -- Community Collaboration -- How to Provide Discipline in the Middle School Classroom -- Strategies for Providing Discipline -- Mandatory Sports -- Character Education -- Innovations for Teaching Language Arts and Math and Science -- Innovations for Teaching Language Arts -- Innovations for Teaching Math and Science -- Girls and Computer Science -- Special Education -- Rethinking Special Education Through the Lens of Gender and the Brain -- Innovations for Dealing with Behavioral Elements of Special Ed -- The Underachiever as a Special Ed Category -- "Mr.Daba ":The Power of Bonding -- The Ultimate Middle School Classroom for Both Boys and Girls -- For the Boys -- For the Girls -- Tips for Parents -- 6 The Ultimate High School Classroom -- Bonding and Attachment -- Communication and Conflict Resolution -- The Art of Mentoring -- Peer Leadership, Not Peer Pressure -- Discipline Systems -- Character Education and Service Projects -- Structural Innovations -- Class and School Size -- Uniforms -- Time and Time-of-Day Innovations -- The Innovations Students Are Asking for -- Counterinnovations -- Rites of Passage -- Full Psychosocial Education, Not Just Sex Education -- Improving Sex Education -- Gender Education -- Innovations to Improve Academic Learning -- Teaching Mathematics, Science, and Technology -- Technology and Gender -- Teaching Reading and Literacy -- Standardized Testing -- Special Education.

The Ultimate High School Classroom for Both Boys and Girls -- For the Boys -- For the Girls -- Tips for Parents -- What High School Students Are Saying: Their Fears -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Additional Resources -- The Authors.

At last, we have the scientific evidence that documents the many biological gender differences that influence learning. For instance, girls talk sooner, develop better vocabularies, read better, and have better fine motor skills. Boys, on the other hand, have better auditory memory, are better at three-dimensional reasoning, are more prone to explore, and achieve greater abstract design ability after puberty. In this profoundly significant book, author Michael Gurian synthesizes the current knowledge and clearly demonstrates how this distinction in hard-wiring and socialized gender differences affects how boys and girls learn. Gurian presents a new way to educate our children based on brain science, neurological development, and chemical and hormonal disparities. The innovations presented in this book were applied in the classroom and proven successful, with dramatic improvements in test scores, during a two-year study that Gurian and his colleagues conducted in six Missouri school districts.

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