Strategies for Teaching Boys and Girls -- Secondary Level

THE AUTHORS MICHAEL GURIAN is the New York Times best- selling author of The Wonder of Boys and nine- teen other books, includ- ing Boys and Girls Learn Differently!, A Fine Young Man, The Good Son, The Wonder of Girls, and The Minds of Boys. He is a pioneer in the fields of family development and education and has appeared on Today, Good Morning America, CNN, NPR, and in The New York Times, USA Today, Time, Newsweek, and elsewhere. KATHY STEVENS, co-author of The Minds of Boys, is the training director of the Gurian Institute and has worked in education, child development, and the nonprofit sector for more than thirty years in programs as diverse as juvenile and adult corrections, cultural competency training, domestic violence prevention, and women's issues. KELLEY KING is direc- tor of the Gurian Institute Education Division. She has been a teacher and school principal for more than twenty years.

• About This Book vThe Authors viiAbout the Gurian Institute ixAcknowledgments xi1 What Could They Be Thinking? The Science of Boy-Girl Learning Differences 12 Maximizing the Brain-Body Connection: Moving Through the Curriculum 173 Creating a New Playbook: Using More Visual-Spatial Strategies in Your Classroom 394 Building Learning Teams of Boys and Girls: Promoting Positive Social Development 595 Letting Them Lead: The Power of Choice on the Developing Adolescent Brain 696 When Am I Ever Going to Use This Again? Finding Ways to Make Learning Real 877 Reading Between the Lines: Figuring Out What Adolescents Will Read 1098 Modeling the Adult World: The Crucial Role of the Mentor 1279 After the Final Bell Rings: The Lives of Teenagers Outside School 141Epilogue 157Sources 159Index 165