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Review of Strategies to Address Gender Inequalities in Scottish Schools

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Appendix 2 List of Strategies Identified by Local Authorities

Local authority

Strategy/Area of focus

Reported involvement

l.a.

staff

pupils

parents

1

Reading: Blokes and Books, Bags of books

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v

2

SQA performance - girls

v

3

Gender specific classes

v

v

Learning styles

v

v

v

4

Raise Boys' Attainment, S-Grade

v

v

5

Handle Techniques

v

Boys literacy/home reading initiative

v

v

Use of learning maps P1-7

v

Getting the best out of boys

v

6

Early years Parent Services - promote role/ involvement of fathers in children's learning

v

Contexts for learning - boys

Sure Start work - promote health improvement, men and boys in particular

7

Boys' underachievement; single gender classes, class organisation, learning and teaching styles

v

v

Boys' underachievement; learning and teaching styles, use of ICT, Mindstore, tracking systems, supported tutorials

v

v

v

Literacy: learning and teaching styles, selection of resources, emotional literacy programme

v

v

v

8

Tracking of individuals' progress

v

v

v

9

Active Learning for boys

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v

v

Early literacy

v

v

v

Top 30 Tips

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v

10

Partnership/role modelling/reading champions

v

v

Storytelling

v

v

v

Science Squad

v

v

v

v

CASE

v

v

v

11

Developing language skills and motor skills

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v

v

v

Variety of teaching experiences

v

v

v

Language across the curriculum

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v

v

v

12

Under achievement of boys

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v

13

Boys' underachievement

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v

v

v

Raising boys' achievement in writing

v

v

14

Boys and literacy

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v

v

v

15

Citizenship in the 3-5 curriculum

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v

v

16

Range of gender issues on S2 equal opportunities day

Classroom practices

17

Working with fathers

Learning and Teaching Strategies

v

v

v

Gender imbalance in attainment

18

Single gender classes, mentoring

v

v

v

v

Reading in the upper stages

v

v

v

Alternative Curriculum: general focus on motivation through enterprise, pupil support and inclusion agenda

v

v

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