Book description
Based on an extensive worldwide study, this book reveals what gets boys
excited about learning
Reaching Boys, Teaching Boys challenges the widely-held
cultural impression that boys are stubbornly resistant to schooling
while providing concrete examples of pedagogy and instructional style
that have been proven effective in a variety of school settings. This
book offers more than 100 detailed examples of lessons that succeed
with male students, grouped thematically. Such themes include: Gaming,
Motor Activities, Open Inquiry, Competition, Interactive Technology,
and Performance/Role Play. Woven throughout the book is moving
testimony from boys that both validates the success of the lessons and
adds a human dimension to their impact.
- The author's presents more than 100+ specific activities for all
content areas that have proven successful with male students
- Draws on an in-depth, worldwide study to reveal what lessons and
strategies most engage boys in the classroom
- Has been described as the missing link that our schools need for
the better education of boys
Michael Reichert, Ph. D., is a clinician,
consultant to schools, and supervising psychologist at The Haverford
School. He also serves as executive director of the Center for the
Study of Boys' and Girls' Lives.
Richard Hawley, Ph. D., headmaster emeritus of Cleveland's
University School, was the founding president of the International
Boys' Schools Coalition, and is author of many books about children,
schools, and learning.
