Teaching Girls - How Teachers and Parents Can Reach Their Brains and Hearts

This unique book reveals the kinds of teaching that engages girls intellectually, fosters their creativity, and bolsters their confidence.

List of contents

Dedication
Epigraph
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Preface

1.Introduction
2.The Qualities of Effective Lessons
3.Engaging Classroom Activities
4.The Importance of Teachers
5.Why These Lessons Work
6.Gender in the Classroom
7.Practicing Gender Consciousness
8.STEAM and Intellectual Risk Taking
9.A School That Works for Girls
10.Afterword

Endnotes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Peter Kuriloff, Ed.D., is a psychologist and Professor of Education at the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education. He the Research Director of The Center for the Study of Boys' and Girls' Lives (www.csbgl.org).

Charlotte E. Jacobs, Ph.D. is an Associate Director of the Independent School Teaching Residency program at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education. She is also the Executive Director of Girls Justice League, a non-profit organization dedicated to the social, political, and economic rights of girls in Philadelphia (www.girlsjusticeleague.org).

Shannon H. Andrus, Ed.D., is an educational researcher and consultant living in Colorado. A former high school teacher, her areas of research include teacher training, girls' education, and gender in schools.

Summary

This unique book reveals the kinds of teaching that engages girls intellectually, fosters their creativity, and bolsters their confidence.

Product details

• Authors: Shannon Andrus, Charlotte Jacobs, Jacobs Charlotte, Peter Kuriloff, Peter Andrus Kuriloff, Peter J. Kuriloff
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9781475820386
• ISBN: 978-1-4758-2038-6
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; EDUCATION / Professional Development, EDUCATION / Student Life & Student Affairs, Advice on parenting, teacher training, Educational strategies & policy, Gender studies: women, Parenting: advice and issues, Gender studies: women and girls, Educational strategies and policy, EDUCATION / Teaching / General