Boys' Education: Teachers

"In this episode of the IBSC Exploring Boys’ Education podcast, Bruce Collins interviews seven teachers from IBSC member schools who have successfully implemented storytelling as a pedagogy in their schools. These teachers from Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and South Africa describe how they use of narrative in their classes ... "

"IBSC seeks to support, advance, and celebrate boys’ schools as learning environments focused on the achievement of boys and advocates for boys’ education everywhere ... "

"“In conclusion, it was surprising how openly the teachers and counsellors expressed their gendered perceptions of students. The interviews revealed patterns of gender stereotypes that can have a major impact on students, not only in upper secondary schools, but also in the transition to tertiary education. …Therefore, it is important that teachers' and counsellors' stereotyped gender roles are acknowledged and rectified. The results of this study point to pitfalls, such as gender stereotypes and gendered expectations, that continuously need to be emphasised in order to foster equality, fair teaching practices, an open-minded school atmosphere and an overall wellbeing in schools. Moreover, this study suggests that the gender issue is not yet solved and hence needs to be more strongly addressed in teacher education and incorporated into in-service teacher training” ... "

“Of interest, boys and girls had different responses to changing their games. Girls showed greater willingness to change their own game (or make suggestions to other games), focusing on everyone’s participation. Boys tried to change their games to make them more strategic. Moreover, girls blamed themselves if other students could not play their game, whereas boys blamed other students… "

"Among boys, requiring PE and the number of minutes spent exercising in PE were negatively related to body size perception….The number of days spent in PE and the number of minutes spent exercising in PE were positively related to perceived attractiveness among boys… Based on the results of this study, PE may be an important and cost-effective way of reducing negative body image among adolescents,… Therefore, school policy implications are discussed. Expanding school programs that promote physical activity, such as PE class, may be a great way of improving body image for a large number of students."