Do You Agree With The Action Of Separating Girls And Boys In Classes?

Separating Boys and Girls in Class
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Different cultures across the world have different perspectives about the manner in which boys and girls interact with one another. A good example is the case of the interaction that they display in the school environment. Separating them or putting them together have different effects in the classwork and social life. Therefore, I think, boys and girls should be separated in the classroom.[Gurian, Michael. Boys and girls learn differently! A guide for teachers and parents: Revised 10th anniversary edition. John Wiley & Sons, 2010.]
One of the main reasons as to why boys and girls should be separated is the fact that both have different learning abilities. Research shows that girls have a higher ability of quick understanding as compared to boys. Therefore, for the teachers have to master each of the student's progress, then they have to place them in specific locations at the cases whereby they can access and teach them more whenever necessary. The differences in this rate are evident in the case of classroom discussions. Girls tend to be more cooperative and fast thinkers as compared to boys. This is because girls are passive learners hence they work well in environments whereby they can express their visual and auditory abilities. On the other hand, boys are kinetic learners and require an environment whereby the do things practically in order to understand easily. This explains the reason as to why most of the technical jobs are occupied by men while women occupy the less technical.[Steffens, Melanie C., and Petra Jelenec. "Separating implicit gender stereotypes regarding math and language: Implicit ability stereotypes are self-serving for boys and men, but not for girls and women." Sex Roles 64, no. 5-6 (2011): 324-335.] [Parkay, Forrest W., Beverly Hardcastle Stanford, and Thomas Douglas Gougeon. Becoming a teacher. Pearson/Merrill, 2010.] [Gathercole, Susan, and Tracy Packiam Alloway. Working memory and learning: A practical guide for teachers. Sage, 2008.] [Baron-Cohen, Simon, Fiona J. Scott, Carrie Allison, Joanna Williams, Patrick Bolton, Fiona E. Matthews, and Carol Brayne. "Prevalence of autism-spectrum conditions: UK school-based population study." The British Journal of Psychiatry 194, no. 6 (2009): 500-509.]
Besides, girls and boys are motivated by different stimuli. Therefore, in a situation whereby they have not been separated, then it becomes difficult for the teacher to know the best approach to use. Some of the approaches might make the girls to develop a feeling that the teacher does not care about them and, hence, end up performing poorly in the class. The same case applies to the boys. Engaging the girls too much will make the boys feel ignored. Hence, teachers should separate them so that they can make the learning process an easy one. As well, it will also save the teachers a lot of time that would have been spent in explaining a particular concept to individual students. Research shows that higher performance has been recorded in school that is gender specific as compared to schools that combine both genders in one class. In the classroom, girls are known to score better grades in PE and Woodworks lessons in the absence of boys. On the other hand, boys are known to score well in English in the absence of girls because they have no one to intimidate their abilities.[Noguera, Pedro A. "Saving Black and Latino boys: What schools can do to make a difference." Phi Delta Kappan 93, no. 5 (2012): 8-12.] [Patterson, Gregory A. "Separating the boys from the girls." Phi Delta Kappan 93, no. 5 (2012): 37-41.] [Anyadubalu, C. "Self-efficacy, anxiety, and performance in the English language among middle-school students in English language program in Satri Si Suriyothai, Bangkok." International Journal of Social Science 5, no. 3 (2010): 193-198.]
Also, it is important to separate girls and boys because the emotional and sexual feelings, especially for those who have reached the adolescent age bracket, can be a huge distracting factor in the classroom. During this age, boys and girls are in the process of discovering their bodies and, therefore, this leads to the need for experimenting things that they should not be doing. Therefore, to prevent such distractions from happening, it is best to put boys and girls in separate classes. As a result, this will allow them humble time to focus on class work and in turn, attain good grades. There is always time for everything, and a good career is not build in one day. It is a process that is highly determined by an individual's effort in classwork or the activities that contribute positively to their lives.
However, some scholars argue that it is not good to separate boys and girls during classwork. Among the reasons put forward is that they need to develop their social skills. It is believed that such social skills cannot be developed in environments whereby there is only one gender. However, this argument can still be reversed by appreciating the fact that the interaction is important. Therefore, boys and girls can be allowed to interact during their free time in order to develop their communication and socializing skills. However, at the end of the day, the learning can be done in different classrooms to enhance the understanding capabilities of the students. Besides, this will prevent distractions of the memories of their interaction from disrupting them during the class environment. The teachers can also evaluate the learning capabilities of the students and decide on which lessons they are going to mix the students. This has to be done after research shows that the combination will result in poorer performance as compared to the way it used to be.[Smith, Michelle K., William B. Wood, Wendy K. Adams, Carl Wieman, Jennifer K. Knight, Nancy Guild, and Tin Tin Su. "Why peer discussion improves student performance on in-class concept questions." Science 323, no. 5910 (2009): 122-124.] [Sadker, David, and Karen R. Zittleman. Still failing at fairness: How gender bias cheats girls and boys in school and what we can do about it. Simon and Schuster, 2009.] [Crosnoe, Robert, Catherine Riegle‐Crumb, Sam Field, Kenneth Frank, and Chandra Muller. "Peer group contexts of girls’ and boys’ academic experiences." Child Development79, no. 1 (2008): 139-155.] [Weil, Elizabeth. "Teaching boys and girls separately." New York Times (2008): 38.] [Wilson, Fiona, Jill Kickul, and Deborah Marlino. "Gender, entrepreneurial self‐efficacy, and entrepreneurial career intentions: implications for entrepreneurship education." Entrepreneurship theory and practice 31, no. 3 (2007): 387-406.]
Concisely, classwork, especially at a tender age, is very important in the life of an individual since it has a huge contribution to the success that they expect in the future. Therefore, boys and girls out to be separated because they have different learning abilities, respond differently to various stimuli and may face gender distraction that could affect their studies. Separating them does not mean that they will not interact. However, they will still be given time to interact with one another but outside the class environment.
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