I am very excited to be exploring a research topic which I am interested in, as an assignment for our course. There are several topics that I am eager to explore, which include: the way we educate boys and how it affects their experience, the unintended consequences of live in hired help in the UAE on children, are the children of pilots and other careers that demand a lot of time away from home similarly at risk to single parent children?
I decided to explore my first interest and I have narrowed it down to "What teaching methods have been researched and/or implemented that take boys' nature into account? and how has that affected the experience for boys and their teachers?"
The 10 -15 children that are of concern to me annually due to behavior or discipline reasons, turn out to be about 90% boys every single year. So a few years ago, I asked myself if it wasn't our expectation that was the problem and if there was something we could do differently for those 10-20% of the boys at the nursery that struggle with following the routine and expectations.
Now I am very excited that I will research this topic, and it coincides with our monthly staff development workshop and a change I am implementing at nursery as a pilot program.
My two children are also boys and I find that the year their school reduced recess, they struggled significantly. Once it was reintroduced, I could feel their concentration improve. I also have a few theories about boys that we see in traditions in tribes and several cultures globally.
The research will be most interesting, and I would be very interested to get any recommendations from my colleagues and classmates.
I decided to explore my first interest and I have narrowed it down to "What teaching methods have been researched and/or implemented that take boys' nature into account? and how has that affected the experience for boys and their teachers?"
The 10 -15 children that are of concern to me annually due to behavior or discipline reasons, turn out to be about 90% boys every single year. So a few years ago, I asked myself if it wasn't our expectation that was the problem and if there was something we could do differently for those 10-20% of the boys at the nursery that struggle with following the routine and expectations.
Now I am very excited that I will research this topic, and it coincides with our monthly staff development workshop and a change I am implementing at nursery as a pilot program.
My two children are also boys and I find that the year their school reduced recess, they struggled significantly. Once it was reintroduced, I could feel their concentration improve. I also have a few theories about boys that we see in traditions in tribes and several cultures globally.
The research will be most interesting, and I would be very interested to get any recommendations from my colleagues and classmates.
Hi Zeina,
ReplyDeleteI am so happy to see that you are taking a look at the very real issues that our boys face each day as they try so hard to fit in. I too studied this area there is much out there that supports this problem, but still nothing is done about it. In my findings, boys are more hands on and physical it is their nature, so a structured environment will always be a challenge for them. Your study may also show you that it continues through grade school where sadly we loose some to the streets. It's so upsetting, remember, just as I suggested to you in our class discussion check out the book, "Real Boys" by Dr. William Pollack be prepared to be amaze and sob. I'm looking forward to what you'll find, enjoy the study. Oh yes, I have three sons and only the three sons, no daughters.
Oh... I loooove this! often boys get a bad wrap. I would like to now how the experts differentiate between a fidget and a behavior issue? When does being a normal active boy act up so much at a young age that it constitutes medicine?
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