What’s the problem?

Notice anything about the % of girls and boys achieving

level 5?Hmm…..

What are we doing?

• Peer coaching for teachers

• Separate gender teaching

• Specific focus in numeracy planning and monitoring on gender issues

• Teaching to include paired talk, no hands up and open-ended questions

• Data analysis

• Positive female role models in assemblies

Skipping competition

• You are organising a skipping tournament.• There are 8 teams• How will you organise the competition to

find the best team?• What do you need to consider?• Ensure every team plays one another• How long will they play?• How long will the tournament last?

Teaching and Teaching and learninglearning

•Girls do better than boys on Girls do better than boys on sustained tasks that are open-ended, sustained tasks that are open-ended, process based, related to realistic process based, related to realistic situations, and that require pupils to situations, and that require pupils to think for themselves.think for themselves.

Teaching and Teaching and learninglearning•Boys show greater adaptability to Boys show greater adaptability to

more traditional approaches to more traditional approaches to learning which require memorising learning which require memorising abstract, unambiguous facts and abstract, unambiguous facts and rules that have to be acquired quickly. rules that have to be acquired quickly. They appear to sacrifice deep They appear to sacrifice deep understanding, requiring sustained understanding, requiring sustained effort, for solutions achieved at effort, for solutions achieved at speed.speed.