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Boys and Girls Learn Differently! Boys & Girls Learn Differently! A Training Program of the Gurian Institute 1
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Boys and Girls Learn Differently! We are Generalizing! We are not Stereotyping! 3
Boys and Girls Learn Differently! When we’re laughing…. Our body produces more neurotransmitters for memory and alertness - Stanford University 4
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Boys and Girls Learn Differently! Psychic Handshake 10
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Boys and Girls Learn Differently! The Rascally Things Boys Do As Told By Perfectly Decent Grown Men Edited by Kitty Harmon 23
Boys and Girls Learn Differently! Things I most enjoy about the boys in my class… 9 Things that make the boys in my class a real challenge… 24
Boys and Girls Learn Differently! Things I most enjoy about the girls in my class… 10 Things that make the girls in my class a real challenge… 25
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Boys and Girls Learn Differently! Some things to think about… Excelling in geography 27
Boys and Girls Learn Differently! Some things to think about… discipline referrals 28
Boys and Girls Learn Differently! Some things to think about… learning disabled behaviorally disabled 29
Boys and Girls Learn Differently! Some things to think about… ADD & ADHD Children (www. amenclinics. com) 30
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Boys and Girls Learn Differently! Some things to think about… D E N I A RET 33
Boys and Girls Learn Differently! Some things to think about… High School Drop-outs 34
Boys and Girls Learn Differently! Root Cause Analysis • • • Work with your table group. Choose a statement. Ask “Why? ” Record. Repeat. 35
Boys and Girls Learn Differently! • Boys earn 70% of the Ds and Fs. • Boys represent 90% of discipline referrals. • 70% of substance abusers are boys. • 80% of high school dropouts are boys. • Boys achieve at lower levels in literacy in all countries. 36
Boys and Girls Learn Differently! Brain Break 37
Boys and Girls Learn Differently! Do classrooms nurture the nature of both boys & girls? 38
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Boys and Girls Learn Differently! What can we learn from the research? 2 -8 40
Boys and Girls Learn Differently! How about that brain! 3 lbs 41
Boys and Girls Learn Differently! Your brain has 30 billion working parts 42
Boys and Girls Learn Differently! Its nerve impulses travel 170 mph 43
Boys and Girls Learn Differently! Your brain is like a 168, 000 MHz Pentium computer With 100 -trillion-synapses, we can safely say that the average brain can hold about 100 million megabytes of memory 44
Boys and Girls Learn Differently! How Do You Know Unless You Look? ? 45
Boys and Girls Learn Differently! Source: Daniel Amen www. amenclinics. com 46
Boys and Girls Learn Differently! How’re the male and female brain wired? 47
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Boys and Girls Learn Differently! Up to 20% of males and females may be 50
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Boys and Girls Learn Differently! During the early years… More interested in faces than things… 5 52
Boys and Girls Learn Differently! During the early years… More interested in things than in faces 5 53
Boys and Girls Learn Differently! During the early years… More developed fine motor skills Prefers soft, cuddy toys 5 54
Boys and Girls Learn Differently! During the early years… More developed gross motor skills More physically active, prefers mechanical and structural toys 6 55
Boys and Girls Learn Differently! During the early years… 99% of speech comprehensible by age 3 6 56
Boys and Girls Learn Differently! During the early years… Speaks first words later than girls 6 57
Boys and Girls Learn Differently! So, how does adolescence affect the brain ? ? 58
Boys and Girls Learn Differently! Who Are These People ? ? 59
Boys and Girls Learn Differently! Girls and boys in middle school are experiencing the greatest hormonal upheaval of their lives. 60
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Boys and Girls Learn Differently! Who Are These People ? ? 63
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Boys and Girls Learn Differently! BREAK TIME 66
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Boys and Girls Learn Differently! Sensory & Emotive Differences 4 69
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Boys and Girls Learn Differently! Frontal Cortex 76
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Boys and Girls Learn Differently! Neural Rest States 78
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Boys and Girls Learn Differently! Frontal Cortex 81
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Boys and Girls Learn Differently! Frontal Cortex 83
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Boys and Girls Learn Differently! The brain development continues to mature long after students graduate from high school… Myelination of cells (the physical maturing process of the brain) continues into the 20 s for females and into the early 30 s for males. 85
Boys and Girls Learn Differently! Chemical & Hormonal Differences 86
Boys and Girls Learn Differently! “Aggression Nurturance” Involves physical interaction, tough talk, competitive games, and aggressive nonverbal gestures. S 19 E 20 87
Boys and Girls Learn Differently! “Empathy Nurturance” Understanding how someone else is feeling and really identifying with that person and those feelings. 88
Boys and Girls Learn Differently! Testosterone & Estrogen 89
Boys and Girls Learn Differently! Dopamine 90
Boys and Girls Learn Differently! Serotonin 91
Boys and Girls Learn Differently! Oxytocin 92
Boys and Girls Learn Differently! Cortisol 93
Boys and Girls Learn Differently! Brain Sex: Brain Architecture and the Sexes Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better: Why The Sexes Excel Differently 94
Boys and Girls Learn Differently! GOOD S T R E S S (eustress) Can be a good thing Helps children gain power and strength Develops confidence Helps children respond to emergencies and stay safe 12 13 95
Boys and Girls Learn Differently! Brain activity in a state of high challenge, low stress: 96
Boys and Girls Learn Differently! BAD STRESS (distress) Decreases the effectiveness of the immune system Creates sleep disturbances Can cause weight loss and/or gain Result in migraines and stress headaches 97
Boys and Girls Learn Differently! Brain activity in a state of anxiety, stress and threat: 98
Boys and Girls Learn Differently! (Dis)Stress negatively affects learning cortisol goes up learning goes down behavior problems go up 99
Boys and Girls Learn Differently! Boys (and men!) establish pecking orders which are extremely important to them. When they are low in the pecking order, stress hormones go up and learning goes down 100
Boys and Girls Learn Differently! What things are creating good stress in you/your students lives? What things are creating bad stress in you/your students lives? 101
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