2010: A Learning Odyssey
ICE Day 2 - Boys and Girls are Different: Closing the Achievement Gap
Overall, this was an incredible session.
If your district is interested in learning, really learning, about the gap in achievement between boys and girls as well as research based insights as to why those gaps not only exist, but are being supported by institutionalized teaching and classroom management/bias practices, you need to bring Ken Wallace in to in-service your staff. I know... that is not only a big sentence, but quite a large statement. I feel that like Ruby Payne's work on poverty, Ken Wallace's work on gender differences has the potential have a tremendous impact on how teachers approach students to maximize learning potential.
Even with two days left in the conference it will take an awe-inspiring session to top Ken's presentation, insights, and knowledge on this topic.
Before I get too far into this post, here you will find a link to my Zoho Notebook for the session: http://notebook.zoho.com/nb/public/sweidig/book/3946000000023567 In the Notebook, you will find my session notes, various researchers with links to their sites, and their books (amazon), as many resources as I could keep up with providing, as well as a page that draws in Mel Levine's allkindsofminds website. In the future I might draw this information into my wiki at vanishingpoint.wiki.zoho.com to allow for an expanded collaboration, but right now I am just a bit too tired :)
I am blogging about this with a night to sleep on all of the material that Ken presented... I also have a personal experience to share that occurred while I was driving home and smacking things around in my brain. I received the following SMS message from my wife:
[still a work in progress]
If you have questions about any of the information found in the Notebook or would like more clarification, feel free to drop me a line at vanishingpoint@live.com
If your district is interested in learning, really learning, about the gap in achievement between boys and girls as well as research based insights as to why those gaps not only exist, but are being supported by institutionalized teaching and classroom management/bias practices, you need to bring Ken Wallace in to in-service your staff. I know... that is not only a big sentence, but quite a large statement. I feel that like Ruby Payne's work on poverty, Ken Wallace's work on gender differences has the potential have a tremendous impact on how teachers approach students to maximize learning potential.
Even with two days left in the conference it will take an awe-inspiring session to top Ken's presentation, insights, and knowledge on this topic.
Before I get too far into this post, here you will find a link to my Zoho Notebook for the session: http://notebook.zoho.com/nb/public/sweidig/book/3946000000023567 In the Notebook, you will find my session notes, various researchers with links to their sites, and their books (amazon), as many resources as I could keep up with providing, as well as a page that draws in Mel Levine's allkindsofminds website. In the future I might draw this information into my wiki at vanishingpoint.wiki.zoho.com to allow for an expanded collaboration, but right now I am just a bit too tired :)
I am blogging about this with a night to sleep on all of the material that Ken presented... I also have a personal experience to share that occurred while I was driving home and smacking things around in my brain. I received the following SMS message from my wife:
[still a work in progress]
If you have questions about any of the information found in the Notebook or would like more clarification, feel free to drop me a line at vanishingpoint@live.com
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