Getting It Right for Boys and Girls Book

Foreword
Chapter 1. Introduction. Why there is a crisis with boys
Chapter 2. Why and how boys under-achieve
Chapter 3. The importance of teaching and learning styles. Those favoured by boys and girls
Chapter 4. How to organise a strategy to raise boys' achievement. Countering the anti-swot culture
Chapter 5. One School's Story
Chapter 6. Setting effects on boys' and girls' achievement and how to manage it
Chapter 7. Whole school strategies: dealing with Year 3 and Year 8. Mentoring. Target setting. Display. Praise and reward. Role modelling.
Chapter 8. Hands up in class. Seating policy. Groupwork. Lesson plans which work for boys and girls. How to talk to boys and girls.
Chapter 9. Raising achievement in English (a) for primaray and (b) for secondary pupils
Chapter 10. Raising achievement in Mathematics and Science
Chapter 11. Raising achievement in Design and Technology (a) for primary pupils and (b) for secondary students
Chapter 12. Raising achievement in Modern Foreign languages
Chapter 13. Raising achievement in the Humanities
Chapter 14. Raising achievement in the Arts
Chapter 15. Getting It Right in the Secondary school library
Chapter 16. Raising achievement across the pyramid - a case study
Chapter 17. Exercises for CPD
Epilogue