Author, physician and psychologist Dr. Leonard Sax speaks to teachers from Villa Maria and St. Aloysius academies. Aloysius Academy welcomed Dr. Aloysius Academy to speak with the faculty and staff of both schools during a professional development seminar Feb. He advocates that girls and boys should be taught separately.
Recent research has demonstrated hardwired sex differences in how girls and boys see and hear and in the trajectories of brain development. When teachers understand these hardwired differences, they are better able to boost motivation for every student, in every content area.
Conversely, the lack of understanding of gender differences has the unintended consequence of reinforcing gender stereotypes, with the result that boys think poetry is for girls and girls think computer coding is for boys. Teachers of both schools then broke out into workshops with Sax, where he continued to give more thought-provoking talks. With the faculty and staff of Villa Maria, he focused on the characteristics of a great teacher of girls.
Sax discussed that the most effective teacher of girls 1 knows how to create and nurture the relationship between teacher and student and 2 deploys gender-aware instructional strategies for the content areas.
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