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jkelly80
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Location: you boys like mexico?
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 Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 4:47 pm Post subject: Getting the girls to participate in PS class |
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| I've noticed that the girls are usually much more quiet than the boys in my classes, but their English is usually as good or better. Does anyone have any techniques to encourage the girls to talk more? I don't really want to discourage the boys from speaking if it's in English, but some times they just scream over everybody. |
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Yu_Bum_suk
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| Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 5:44 pm Post subject: |
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| What level are you talking about - elementary, MS, or HS? |
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KYC
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| Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 6:16 pm Post subject: |
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it's usually the girls who participate in all of my classes. I have a problems getting the boys to stay on track or even participating. The only part of the class that they are really attentive is during the game.
Use boys against girls for the games. |
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jkelly80
Joined: 13 Jun 2007
Location: you boys like mexico?
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| Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 6:25 pm Post subject: |
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| Yu_Bum_suk wrote: |
| What level are you talking about - elementary, MS, or HS? |
Elementary, just 5th and 6th. |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 6:36 pm Post subject: |
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| jkelly80 wrote: |
| Yu_Bum_suk wrote: |
| What level are you talking about - elementary, MS, or HS? |
Elementary, just 5th and 6th. |
In that case I really don't have a clue. I knew a guy who used to organise an arm-wrestling competition between boys and girls in grades 5 and 6. The first boy and the first girl to answer a question correctly would come up and arm-wrestle for a point or something like that, making sure that the bigger girls got selected. At that age some of the girls are bigger and stronger than a lot of the boys and it proved a very fun way to humiliate boys. |
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Suwon23
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| I have the same problem with my 10 year olds. If you ask a question and leave it open for anyone to answer, some boy will scream out the answer and you can see the girls retreat like snails into a shell. Hurray for gender roles... The only way I've found to stop it is to call on students to give answers and pick girls half the time. |
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