Government Report Says Male Role Models In Schools Won't Help Boy Crisis
- From: "amused onlooker" <null@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 16:52:56 GMT
More Sirs 'won't shut gender gap'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/6276568.stm
Recruiting more male teachers will not help close the gap
between boys' and girls' educational achievement, government
researchers say.
Ministers plan to increase the number of men in the classroom
as part of plans to help boys get better grades.
But a report released by the Department for Children, Schools
and Families suggested the approach was "simplistic" and
could back-fire.
Using more boy-friendly teaching styles was also unlikely to
help, it added.
The report - Gender and Education: The Evidence on Pupils in
England - was a review of previous research into the fact
that girls consistently out-perform boys at GCSE, especially
in subjects like English.
And results last summer showed that by the age of 14 boys
were 14% behind girls on average in their national test
results for English.
The DCSF report said: "The increasing gender imbalance in
the school workforce has raised concern that male role models
are not available to boys.
"The fact that policy efforts have been made to address this
imbalance reflects the theory that having more male teachers
could help to raise the attainment (and/or improve the
behaviour) of boys.
"However, this approach has been criticised as simplistic."
This was because research carried out last year found that
two-thirds of pupils rejected the idea that the gender of
their teachers mattered.
Instead children looked at the qualities of teachers, rather
than their gender.
LEARNING STYLES
Both boys and girls said they thought teachers treated boys
more harshly than girls.
The report said: "This finding is in line with other research
suggesting that teachers have low expectations of boys'
academic potential and such low expectations could contribute
to their low achievement."
Some experts have suggested that boys perform less well than
girls in schools because women teachers, who make up 84% of
primary school teachers and 54% of secondary school teachers,
naturally taught in ways preferred by girls.
But the report found little evidence that boys and girls had
different learning styles.
SMALL IMPROVEMENTS
It also said that there was no case for introducing
boy-friendly teaching methods because anything that was likely
to improve boys' grades would also improve girls' results.
This would then perpetuate the gender gap, the report argued.
A DCSF spokesperson said: "It would be difficult to deny that
positive role models are important to young people even if
this cannot be proven in research.
"Boys do underachieve compared to girls in most subjects and
this is a problem in almost every country in the developed
world.
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Boy's weren't underperforming until feminists meddled with
the education system.
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