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Nowadays, more and more people have noticed the phenomena that girls have been overtaking boys. The proportion of boys going to colleges is becoming smaller and smaller. Girls have been seeing doing better in different levels of the school. Therefore, a question being raised by the public is that between co-education and single-sex education, which will benefit our children more? As a teacher and parent, I strongly believe that the latter is a good choice. Gender-based classes can improve our children’s academic achievement through proper approaches suitable for their learning styles, foster better behaviors through promotion of role models and encourage them to explore who they truly are.
As everyone acknowledges that each person has his own learning style, the learning style between boys and girls is not an exception, they are every different due to their physical and metal development. The development of boys’ reading ability is slower than girls’. Boys tend to be more active than girls. When boys know the answer they can’t wait to shout it out, in stead of girls would rather just understand and know the reason. The uneven development attributes to their different learning styles. For the better achievement, separating girls and boys to adapt approaches that fit their learning styles is the best way we can do. For example, in my grade one classroom, it seems like a disaster for boys to sit down to read, even the story they loved to listen. To girls, reading is such a relax thing to do. Both sides can’t have what they need the most, because I have to stay in the middle to look after each side obtain some but not too much. On the other hand, single-sex class using proper methods can provide what the student need most, and help them to achieve their potential.
Furthermore, in single-sex classes, girls will have female teachers and boys own male teachers s for their core courses. To students, teachers are more than just teach their knowledge; they are role models of students. When I was in high school, many girls were shied away from physics, they were held back by the social expectations that girls are not good at science. But, my physics teacher was a female. Her successful career and classes had greatly encouraged me to pursue the higher education. The impact of role models in student’s life can never be under stated. The single-sex class can promote and reinforce this impact. Through their teachers, the students can know better what they are expecting to do and who they want to be. The better behaviors will be shaped by observing their role models having same gender.
When students become teenagers, they care more about their images than their test scores. In co- education classrooms girls worry that they are not going to be invited to the right parties if they speak up too much. Boys try to draw attention from opposite gender even things are stupid. While in single-sex classes, the situation is far more simple. Students don’t have to pay too much attention about if they are popular, boys can play flute without worrying being called geeks. And girls can be clever as they want. They can explore who they want to be freely.
In a nut shell, single-sex education has advantages that co-education can’t reach. Single-sex class provides better circumstance that teachers can tailor their teaching to suit students’ learning styles, improve students’ academic performance and develop conductive skills and personalities.
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