Single-Sex Classrooms

This is a really interesting article on single-sex classrooms and brain-based research that was published in the The New York Times last spring. It expresses both sides of the coin of course, the relevance of brain-based research, and the legality of single-sex public schools. I would like to read more about the different sexes in the classroom just have more information that could possibly help my students connect to the material. Being a female teacher I am always on the look out for ways to better understand boys and how they learn. I do not want to be that teacher that is always on a kid's back, "Do this, do that! Yack yack yack!" I am very conscious of making my classroom boy friendly and of course to not, in turn, forget about the girls. I just know that my sensibilities are naturally femine in nature and may not appeal to half of my class. That is why the books “Boys and Girls Learn Differently!” by Michael Gurian and “Why Gender Matters: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know About the Emerging Science of Sex Differences" by Leonard Sax will be added to my reading list.