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Pocket PAL Gary Wilson

Pocket PAL By Gary Wilson

Pocket PAL by Gary Wilson

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Summary

Provides an introduction to why boys underachieve along with a practical toolkit of proven strategies to help raise boys' attainment across all age boundaries, enabling every teacher, department, key stage or school to identify the problems and plan a way forward.

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Pocket PAL: Raising Boys' Achievement by Gary Wilson

Based on sound research and experience by leading author Gary Wilson, this "Pocket PAL" provides an introduction to why boys underachieve along with a practical toolkit of proven strategies to help raise boys' attainment across all age boundaries, enabling every teacher, department, key stage or school to identify the problems and plan a way forward.

About Gary Wilson

Gary Wilson is a freelance consultant and author, and chair of the National Education Breakthrough Programme on Raising Boys' Achievement. He wrote "Using the National Healthy School Standard to Raise Boys' Achievement" for the DFES and in 2003 was made the country's first LEA school improvement officer with specific responsibility for raising boys' achievement.. He has advised and trained in over two hundred schools across the UK. He has appeared on Teachers' TV and Radio 4 several times.

Table of Contents

Introduction; Pre-School; Lack of independence prior to starting school; Less developed linguistically on entry to school; Literacy; Being forced to read and write before they are physically or emotionally ready; Many writing activities in school perceived as irrelevant and unimportant; Boys' difficulties with structuring written work; Boys' reticence to spend time on planning and preparation; Reading fiction perceived as a female province (Boys and literacy checklist); Classroom Practice; Teacher talk/ Teachers' expectations; Mismatch of teaching and learning styles to boys' preferred learning styles; Lack of opportunities for reflective work; Pupil grouping; Inappropriate seating arrangements; Ineffective group work; Mismatch in assessment and examination methods to boys' preferred ways of working; Emotional Intelligence; Emotional Intelligence issues; Self limiting beliefs; Socio-cultural factors; Peer pressure (anti-swot culture); The laddish culture; The influence of street culture; The lack of positive male role models; The use of non performance enhancing drugs; Lack of engagement with the life of the school; Lack of parental understanding of RBA issues and their subsequent inability to support them appropriately; Whole; School; Playtimes for boys tend to be hyper physical and boy(!) sterous; Homophobic bullying; Inappropriate reward systems and the lack of a positive achievement culture; Intervention occurring too late; Teachers' lack of awareness of issues related to gender and achievement checklist; Further Reading.

Additional information

GOR002203669
9781855393493
1855393492
Pocket PAL: Raising Boys' Achievement by Gary Wilson
Gary Wilson
Pocket PAL
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2007-05-24
96
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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