Some strategies for teaching boys

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Some strategies for teaching boys

• Joe McKee
• Deputy Headmaster
• Trinity School

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What we tend to think about how boys learn

• Lessons with a variety of activities not just one
• Short burst/High impact activities
• Measurable/defined outcome
• Competition
• Roles and Rules
• Show-of-Knowledge

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Odd One Out

• England
• Scotland
• Ireland

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Odd One Out (2)

• Hamlet
• Macbeth
• The Tempest

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Odd One Out (3)

• Hamlet
• Measure For Measure
• Romeo Juliet

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Odd One Out

• Hydrogen
• Nitrogen
• Oxygen

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Go For

• Go For 5!
• Go For 20!
• What would be the advantages of scrapping AS
  modules and returning to a terminal exam system?

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Development Language

• Use as individual cards
• Card games can allow time to think and construct
  or, for more challenge, can be played blind.
• Poker style
• Adapt for the discourse eg the language of
  mathematics

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Im The Question

• Use closed questions only
• 20 questions allowed
• Uses Socratic dialogue and forces the questioner
  to refine the question

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Tell The Truth

• Panel of three
• All claim to be the same person/concept
• All have worked together to research that
  person/concept
• All make statements but two contain
  inaccuracies
• Class must work out who are the liars

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Magic If

• Open, hypothetical questions that take limits
  away
• If the Earth was slightly further away from the
  Sun so life was still possible how would that
  change things for humans?
• Combine with Go For 20

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P/M/I

• Plus a perceived benefit
• Minus a perceived negative
• Interesting not really either but it gives you
  pause for thought

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Really Quick Ideas

• Lying!
• Certainty Of Response Index
• The Emperors Judgement
• Badly Dubbed Movie
• Monkey On The Back