Some interesting facts for teachers
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 Some interesting facts

Male teachers “better for boys”

Boys do better at school when taught by men,while women help improve girls’ performances,US research suggests.

  A study of 25,000 pupils by Stanford University economist Thomas Dee found children did 4% better in test when their teachers were of the same sex.

 Schools should “keep an open mind” about how to rise the achievements of male and female pupils, he said.

 But Professor Dee said this should not necessarily mean introducing more single-sex classes.

 The research,based on the US-wide National Education Longitudinal Survey,  found that a teacher’s gender had “large effects on student test performance”.

The report adds ,”Simply put ,girls have better educational oppotunities when taught by women and boys are better off when taught by men.

 When a woman ws in charge of a class,boys were “more likely to be seen as distruptive”. Meanwhile ,when taught by a man, girls were  “more likely to report that they did not look forward to a subject”.

  Professor Dee said educationalists should “hesitate” before advocating more single-sex classes, which could have other “drawbacks”.

  But teachers could learn more about the “different learning styles” of boys and girls and get more training “aimed at combating gender bases” in their own behaviour.  Prof.Dee added ,”Perhaps the best policy solution is to keep an open mind about a variety of strategies that neither unequivocally endorse single -sex education nor rule it out of order together”.

   In the UK, boys were outperformed by girls in this year’s GCSE exams,but they improved  at a faster rate.

 A study earlier this year by London Metropolitan and Newcastle Universities

 found   that primary school pupils cared less about a teacher’s gender than their overall ability in the job.

   Meanwhile,   review   of international research by   Professor Alan Smithers of Buckingham University, has suggested that single-sex education does not make much difference to achievment. The “ability and social background of pupils”,were more important ,he concluded in a report published earlier this year .

                                                                               From BBC News.