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Cerebrum - Thinks hard
Cerebral Cortex - Covers the cerebrum
Corpus Callosum - Connects left and right hemisphere
Basal Ganglia - Controls movement
Thalamus - Controls emotions
Hypothalamus - Controls breathing and sex drive
Amygdala - Controls emotions i.e. anger/fear
Hippocampus - Memory
Cerebellum - "Doing center" sensory perception, coordination, motor control
Take this quiz
http://quizdoo.com/what-is-your-brain-gender/quiz
http://anglesofreflection.blogspot.com/2014/06/gender-games.html?m=1
http://m.tickld.com/x/12-things-men-do-differently-to-women-7-is-priceless
http://www.rolereboot.org/culture-and-politics/details/2014-05-10-simple-words-every-girl-learn/#.U2jpDJNjbos.twitter
http://anglesofreflection.blogspot.com/2014/03/guest-blog-she-likes-math-but-she-hates.html?m=1
Neomammalian-
Thinking
http://anglesofreflection.blogspot.com/2014/06/gender-games.html?m=1
The brain thinks from the bottom to top.
So teach from bottom to top.
Parts of the Brain
Mammalian -
Feeling
Reptilian -
Survival
The Big Question is...
HOW DO MALE AND FEMALE
BRAINS DIFFER???
If we do not have enough time/space,
we will play Rapid Review.
Cerebrum is used
more and constantly
going. Can multi-task.
Allow girls to use
their multi-tasking, reflecting,
and analyzing abilities.
Cerebral Cortex is
bigger on right side &
slower processing speed
Boys need abstract problems
and to relate things spatially. They need wait time to process information.
...what did you say in the beginning of this presentation?
(Hooker & Lewis, 2012)
Cerebral Cortex is
thicker on left side.
Girls need to communicate
and use their linguistic skills.
Boys need to get moving in the
classroom. They respond to
kinesthetic lessons.
Bansal Ganglia - aka
controls movement -
engages quicker in
males
Same as above. Remember
that this may cause them to
be more dramatic.
Corpus Callosum is thicker.
Can process info quickly,
connect language and
feelings. Hypersensitive.
Don't make them mad. In all
seriousness - do activities
that can excite as well as do
activities that calm the emotions.
Amygdala is bigger in
males. They tend to
anger more quickly.
Thalamus processes data
faster in females. Stress
at "that time of month."
Be mindful of emotions and
try to decrease stress in classroom.
Show patience. Movement in
classroom.
Cerebellum is bigger in
males. Less impulse
control.
Hippocampus is larger.
Increased memory.
Allow girls to utilize their
ability to remember info.
(Gurian, 2011)
IDEAS:
Great review activity
Prefrontal Cortex - executive functioning -
develops faster for women and is larger. It also restrains aggression more in women. Does not fully develop until the age of 25 (Tyre & Scelfo, 2006).
"Boys represent 90% of discipline problems, 80% of the dropouts, and 2/3 of the identified learning disabled in America's classrooms" (Golon, 2007).
Golon's suggestions:
-Allow for ample hands-on learning opportunities
-Maintain a sufficient level of challenge
-Use symbolism, charts, graphs, diagrams
-Allow movement
-Give plenty of work space
-Incorporate more images
-Use computers/media often
(2007).
Great ice breaker
"More levels of estrogen, cortisol and dopamine can cause a female to be more stressed by emotional conflict than her male counterpart" (2006).
Great review activity or ice breaker
Girls enter puberty sooner = hormone fluctuation
(Hooker & Lewis, 2012)
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Golon, A. (2007). Boys vs. girls: Are boys more visual-spatial than girls? why gender matters in every classroom. www.Visual-Learners.com, Retrieved from http://www.visual-learners.com
Gurian, M. (2011). Boys and girls learn differently! San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Boss.
Hooker, G. & Lewis, A. (2012). The gendered brain (3rd ed.).Randolph, NJ: RTC.
Tyre, P. & Scelfo, J. (2006, July 31). Why girls will be girls. Newsweek, 46-47.