Call for Copy: Boys and Reading: How Do We Get Boys to Wrestle with the Pages?
A generation ago educators identified an achievement gap between boys and girls in math and science. Boys were taking and excelling in more science and math classes than girls. With dedication, commitments across districts and states, careful revision of curriculum, the gap closed. Now when you peek in a calculus class you are apt to see as many girls as boys.
Today, schools have another achievement gap educators must address, one that has undermined English classes for decades: Boys lag behind girls as readers. In Idaho, they score lower than girls in reading and language usage on the ISAT starting in the third grade and they never catch up. In addition to standardized test data, English teachers have tons of anecdotal evidence of boys’ attitudes toward the study of literature: Boys are less likely to enjoy reading or identify themselves as committed English students than girls, attitudes that often affect their behavior in the classroom. How can we turn this around? How can we get boys to wrestle, to tussle, to tumble, with pages of novels and biographies and essays and poems?
Some possible topics include:
What are books that your boys, at home and/or in the classroom, read voraciously? What are books that get squirming boys to slow down in their chairs? What books do boys recommend to other boys? Mini-reviews welcome!
What strategies have worked for you to get boys reading more than they have before? Over the course of a semester, how do you encourage boys not only to read their favorite writers/genres, but get them to try new writers? How do you gets boys talking about books with other boys?
If you were to write books for boys, what would your story be? How would you approach writing a book geared toward male readers?
Besides books, what else do your boys read? What topics do your boys read and talk about?
Send essays, classroom strategies, stories of success and struggle, poems, surveys of your male readers, interviews…
Send articles to Crag Hill at 1111 E. Fifth St., or by e- mail at [email removed]
Deadline: March 30, 2007
InLand is a magazine that serves the interests of approximately 350 K-College Language Arts educators in Idaho and Eastern Washington. Readers love articles that enlarge their understanding of a topic.
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Steve,
Yes teacher assistants are used in Wyoming. Regarding employment, it would
depend on where you are interested in living. Each district handles their assistants
differently and the hiring/interviewing process is also based on the district
protocol.
On 3/22/07, Steve wrote:
> Are parapros used ...See More