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As for his learning style, boys start out primarily as tactile and kinesthetic learners. He loves to touch, feel, build and explore with his hands. As they grow, boys are primarily visual, spatial and experiential learners. A high percentage of content throughout his day will be presented in an auditory format.
Boys’ gross motor skills (running, jumping, balancing) tend to develop slightly faster, while girls’ fine motor skills (holding a pencil, writing) improve first.
Men participated more in an active learning course in science, technology, engineering and math, while women reported lower perceptions of their scientific abilities, were more aware of gender identity and more likely to feel judged based on gender, a new Cornell-led study has found.
Students learn by connecting new knowledge with knowledge and concepts that they already know, most effectively in active social classrooms where they negotiate understanding through interaction and varied approaches.
This latter gender difference is the result of hormones. Baby boys have higher levels of testosterone than girls and lower levels of serotonin, which causes them to be more easily stressed and harder to calm down. Infant girls, on the other hand, show a greater tendency to comfort themselves by sucking their thumbs.
1. Gender -based pedagogy exploits instructional methodologies and approaches that appeal differently to the genders in ensuring learning takes place.
In the natural world, it’s actually the norm that females are larger than males. … For one, men remain, on average, larger and stronger than women, 26lbs (10kg) of skeletal muscle, 40% more upper-body strength and 33% more lower body strength.
Girls physically mature faster than boys on a physical level as well due to the quicker process of puberty. Girls undergo puberty earlier than boys by about 1-2 years, and generally finish the stages of puberty quicker than males due to their differences in biology.
Speech/Language Milestones
Boys tend to develop language skills a little later than girls, but in general, kids may be labeled “late-talking children” if they speak less than 10 words by the age of 18 to 20 months, or fewer than 50 words by 21 to 30 months of age.
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GAD OVERVIEW
— is a development perspective that recognizes the unequal status and situation of women and men in society. — Women and men have different development needs and interests, which is institutionalized and perpetuated by cultural, social, economic and political norms, systems and structures.
9710) defines Gender and Development Program (GAD) as the development perspective and process that is participatory and empowering, equitable, sustainable, free from violence, respectful of human rights, supportive of self-determination and actualization of human potentials.
Gender issues include all aspects and concerns related to women’s and men’s lives and situation in society, to the way they interrelate, their differences in access to and use of resources, their activities, and how they react to changes, interventions and policies.
Yet women continue to live longer than men, suggesting the biological differences also have a role. … Experts shave said the gap is due to a combination of biological and social differences. Men’s hormone testosterone is linked to a decrease in their immune system and risk of cardiovascular diseases as they age.
“The study showed that women on a whole are more attractive than men.” And not only that, these more attractive women are producing more beautiful women. “Attractive parents have been found to have a higher ratio of daughters to sons,” Dr da Silva said.
Puberty is the time in life when a boy or girl becomes sexually mature. It is a process that usually happens between ages 10 and 14 for girls and ages 12 and 16 for boys. … The first sign of puberty is usually breast development. Then hair grows in the pubic area and armpits.
Studies have shown that prolonged use of pacifiers may result in increased ear infections, malformations in teeth and other oral structures, and/or speech and language delays. … When weaning your child off a pacifier, do not let your child walk around with a pacifier in his/her mouth.
To be sure, most late talking children do not have high intelligence. … The same is true for bright late-talking children: It is important to bear in mind that there is nothing wrong with people who are highly skilled in analytical abilities, even when they talk late and are less skilled with regard to language ability.
Studying smart essentially means learning how to learn. This includes how to learn faster and more efficiently, while retaining information for longer.