Ensuring Student SuccessRhiannon McDougall

Nicola Farley

How Does Gender Impact on the

Notions of Success and Achievement?

Dimensions of Learning 4 Process Problem Solving - Overcoming

constraints or limiting conditions that are in the way of pursing goals

Sexism is a problem that has been identified in schooling in not just Australia, but many countries

around the world. The Melbourne Declaration states that teachers must “provide all students with access to high-quality schooling that is free from discrimination

based on gender, language, sexual orientation, pregnancy, culture, ethnicity, religion, health or

disability, socioeconomic background or geographic location.” Ministerial Council on Education,

Employment, Training and Youth Affairs (2008).

Year 3 2013NAPLAN results in Reading

Year 5 2013NAPLAN results in Grammar

Year 7 2013NAPLAN results in Writing

Male students performed an mean score of 411.3, whereas female students performed a mean score of 427.1

Male students performed an mean score of 492.4, whereas female students performed a mean score of 509.2

Male students performed an mean score of 499.9, whereas female students performed a mean score of 534.8

Goal: To identify and remedy the reasons behind male students not performing as well as female students.

Constraint/ Limiting Condition:Male Student’s poor organisation skills..Lack of Parental support in male students schooling career.Poor task design by educators.

Solution #1:Demonstrate and Instruct Male Students efficient organisation systems.

Solution #2:Task design by educators that takes into account male students processing abilities.

Solution #3:Create a school / home balance using the ‘You Care, We Care Program’ program.

Selected Solution: Create a “You Care, We Care’ Program to support parents and guardians of male students and to educate them in the importance of encouragement, aspirations, organisations skills, academic responsibility and provides resources to build important academic skills.

Problem Solved: Solution has been identified and resource created to aid educators, guardians and parents of male students to achieve in school.

Try another solution: By creating a “You Care, We Care’ program, resources will be made available to educators to aid them in organisational skills and better task design for males student’s processing abilities.

Graphic Organiser for Problem SolvingProblem: Boys do not perform as well as girls in the classroom

• Attentiveness • Task persistence• Eagerness to learn• Learning independence• Flexibility• Organisation

Organisation Skills

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“The most accurate predictor of a student's achievement is not income or social status but the extent to which that student's family is able to create a home environment that encourages learning, express high expectations for their children's achievement and future careers and become involved in their children's education.”

Home / School Balance

You Care, We Care

Through the Problem Solving process we created a blog called You Care, We Care, which gives students, parents, guardians

and educators tips, tricks and resources to ensure student success.

Click the text above to visit the blog.

You Care, We Care

You Care, We Care

Task Design

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S.M.A.R.T Tasks

Task Design

Work SamplesRubricsChecklistsPlanning Task OrganisationS.M.A.R.T Tasks

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National Assessment Program. (2014). NAPLAN Test Results and Reports. Retrieved from http://www.nap.edu.au/results-and-reports/test-results.html  The American Psychological Association, (2014). Female students Make Higher Grades than Male students in All School Subjects. Retrieved from: http://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2014/04/female students-grades.aspx Wood, J. (2013). Why Female students Do Better in School.  Retrieved from http://psychcentral.com/news/2013/01/05/why-female students-do-better-in-school/50050.html