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Young learners
As students reach the age of about four or five they learn to work in teams and are motivated by competition between them. You can also start to do pairwork and group work around the same time, starting with arts and crafts and moving on to more “adult” activities like information gaps and board games from around seven years old. The choice then is often whether to sit boys together or mix them up with girls. Boys and girls competing against each other is often very motivating, and the quiet girls might be annoyed by having to work with boisterous boys if you mix the groups up. The problems with dividing into male and female groups include:
Quieter boys being irritated by more badly behaved ones, and perhaps not learning as much as they could if put together with some “good girls” Tomboys who are rejected by their fellow girls and/or would prefer to work together with boys who they are likely to have more in common and have more fun with Games and other activities which you know even before you start that one team (meaning one gender) is very likely to win even, e.g. drawing races where hastily scrawled sketches always win Especially if they are split up into single-sex groups elsewhere, they might learn the embarrassment mentioned with teens below earlier than they otherwise would have
Many teachers find that sitting boys and girls together improves discipline in the classroom
Solutions include alternating this kind of division of the class with others (e.g. pairing up strong and weak students, choosing groups randomly, or putting all the strong students together), games which mix up different skills (e.g. listening clearly and then running), or scoring in different ways in the same game (e.g. one point for the quickest piece of work and one point for the tidiest).Gender can be used as a topic at these ages with activities such as guessing whether someone is a boy or a girl, e.g. from descriptions of their daily routines. Fairytales tend to be popular with this age of students, and unusual gender roles (e.g. Little Red Riding Hood being the one who rescues the woodcutter from the wolf, as in Roald Dahl’s version) can provide them with the surprise and humour that they love.