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Considering Gender in Education

  By Chris | January 31, 2012 - 1:10 pm | education
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Having a better education means having a better future Success. Why? Because people with proper education are most likely to have the opportunity to choose what career they want to pursue in the future. However, is there any relevance to consider gender when talking about education? Let’s find it out below.

  • Are girls better than boys when it comes to education?

According to studies, most of the girls in the present are fond of reading even at early age and they are more likely to borrow books from the library as compared to boys. Likewise, girls tend to be more communicative in school and this is one experience that the school is providing for the students. Also, we can say that girls are better than boys in other things most especially that they tend to see their mothers with having successful careers thereby, striving hard in the school to follow the footsteps of their mothers. Finally, a lot of teachers are having more expectations for the girls as compared with the boys. Girls are expected to follow and be good in the classroom because frankly speaking boys would never sit still in the classroom while doing nothing since it’s their nature to be active most of the time. In other words, the girls are more likely to work harder just to please the expectations of the teachers and eventually increasing their grades.

  • Why do boys sometimes fail when it comes to Education?

In one survey, 65% of the girls are likely to get grades from A-C while only 52% for the boys. One reason suggests that a lot of boys are likely to suffer from peer pressure particularly for the white working class boys. They need to set an impression that they are cool and being good in education isn’t cool for them because they don’t want to be tagged as “nerds”. Likewise, according to another study young men tend to be obligated in showing their masculinity in the school environment like in a form of getting involved in fighting around the premises. Lastly, the boys nowadays care about being cool around their friends while showing their dominant characteristics but sadly care less about doing well in their academics.

To wrap it up, boys and girls differ a lot from each other in terms of wants, needs, capabilities, and above all how they perceive several things however; regardless of these differences they shouldn’t be judge in terms of their capabilities in school because of their gender. The important thing is that parents and teachers should work hand in hand to provide assistance in terms of their education.

Parents Participation In Providing Education Is Crucial Towards Future Success

  By Chris | January 30, 2012 - 2:03 pm | education
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It is important that parents should take part in terms of their children’s education like become involved in a college planning. Children should feel that they are getting enough support from their parents especially when it comes to making decision of what they really want to do with their lives However, being with them isn’t enough to help them succeed in their studies; the parents should be fully aware about the learning their children are getting. Specifically, it is recommended to spend time with each of your child, have a moment to sit down with your child and talk about important things to evaluate how well they have developed throughout the year and to assess how much help you should provide to your child. Series of researches have shown that those parents who take a crucial part with their children’s school and education have revealed a positive impact on their children’s performance and these include:

  • Superior grade marks including several high test scores and graduation rates.
  •  Good sense of well being
  •  Positive school attendance
  • Decrease incidence of suspension
  • Fewer violent behaviour instances.
  •  Minimal use of alcohol and prohibited drugs

Thus, school age children who spend 70 % of their time including weekends and holidays with their parents showed a remarkable impact both on their academic and learning aspects. In fact, the higher the parent’s participation with the children’s education, the greater impact would emerge especially for each child’s success and accomplishment. Similarly, research has also shown that parents who are involved with their kid’s learning is twice more likely to succeed in a school particularly in bringing out each potential. That is why parents along with the educators, administrators, community leaders, and neighbouring child advocators should work hand in hand to bring out the full potential of each child not only academically but in terms of participating well in their extra-curricular activities too. On the whole, there are a lot of programs or curriculums in your locality that will cater the needs of the children in terms of their education and all you need is to do is to explore a little bit to know a number of ways to help your children succeed. In fact, parents too have the opportunity to learn on how to effectively handle their kids.

There are several workshops or programs which aid the parents about the importance of understanding and participating in the school organization so both the educator, the parents and other community organizations can work in unison for the future success of the children.