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Gender Differences
Learning Environments
The Brain
Gender Bias 1
Gender Bias 2
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In the US, this gender is falling behind in academic achievement.
What are boys?
100
Short-term single gender learning environments.
What is a strategy for supporting the achievement of boys and girls?
100
This gender’s brains generally have greater cortical emphasis on verbal processing.
What are girls?
100
These measures indicate that boys are falling behind girls in academic achievement. (name two)
What are grades, reading level, dropout rates, suspensions, learning disabilities, behavior disorders, or college attendance?
100
The underrepresented gender in textbooks.
Who are females?
200
Behaviors such as verbal-emotive, sit-still, take-notes, listen-carefully.
What are behaviors more commonly seen in girls?
200
A strategy for supporting LGBT students.
What are gay-straight alliances or statewide policies against sexual orientation bullying?
200
This gender may not value real-world experiences above virtual experiences.
What are boys? (Thinking that the solution is to make learning into a video game fails to grasp that the central challenge facing American boys in the 21st century is precisely in learning to value the real world above the virtual world.)
200
The biased role of women in textbooks
What is being in the home?
200
The biased role of men in textbooks
What is working and being involved in public life?
300
Behaviors such as impulsivity, single-task focus, spatial-kinesthetic learning, and physical aggression.
What are behaviors more commonly seen in boys?
300
In this learning environment, girls are more likely to study subjects such as advanced math, computer science, and physics and boys are twice as likely to study foreign languages, art, music, and drama.
What are single-gender schools and classrooms?
300
This gender’s brains tend to have more cortical areas, mainly in the right hemisphere, wired for spatial/mechanical processing.
What are boys?
300
An aspect of class that is used 70-95 percent of the time and can therefore not be ignored as a form of gender bias.
What are textbooks?
300
This gender is commonly depicted in textbooks as the spouse and/or parent of leaders.
What is the female gender?
400
Boys are much more likely to exhibit this response to stress.
What is the fight or flight response?
400
These are strategies for bridging the gender gap. (name one)
What is Adding Movement, Using Visuals, and Incorporating Student Interests?
400
Because the brain's first priority is survival, if the classroom is not providing any stimuli that the brain perceives as important, this gender’s brain tends to more quickly slip into a rest state.
What are boys? (In the classroom, boys often try to avoid these natural male rest states by engaging in activities like tapping their pencils or poking at classmates).
400
South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, and Middle East-North Africa.
Where is gender disparity greatest?
400
Research shows that other many countries produce a higher number of girls with these skills than the US does.
What are math skills?
500
Girls are much more likely to exhibit this response to stress.
What is the tend and befriend response? What is turning to other females for support and defending each other from perceived threats?
500
An issue at the center of bullying and harassment at school.
What is sexual orientation?
500
This gender’s prefrontal cortex is generally more active than the other gender’s of the same age, and its frontal lobe generally develops earlier.
What are girls?
500
The most camouflaged form of gender bias.
What is textbook bias?
500
These students are five times more likely to skip school and are only half as likely to pursue postsecondary education.
What are LGBT students?