Monday, July 25, 2011

BOOK REVIEW

Teaching Boys Who Struggle In School: Strategies That Turn Underachievers Into Successful Learners by Kathleen Palmer Cleveland

The purpose of this book is to explore those responses about underachievement perspectives based mainly on differentiation between boys and girls.  This book also presents every reader a degree of understanding that is profound enough to support change; flexible enough to encompass many variables, and broad enough to serve as a viable framework for practical design decision making.  Cleveland embraces various ideas and techniques from four large-scale studies for educators to explore, which will assists them in this major concern.  The audience for this book is educators who want to take part in solving the problem on “boys and schools.”  One section of this book that shocked me was seeing the Myers-Briggs Type Inventory being used as framework to explain why students learn and respond to instructions in different ways.  Overall, I believe that this is an outstanding resource for educators that are running into this problem daily.  I challenge every educator that is struggling with this issue today to purchase a copy of this book because it will defiantly assist in guiding underachieving boys in the right direction in education.      
 

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