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Separating genders in the classroom

The most essential aspect of education is an open and welcoming environment that promotes freedom in learning. This helps to ensure that one can confidently express oneself and not hold back. Being able to freely ask questions and share thoughts is an important key in being successful. In my educational career, even up until the present day, this has not always been the case. Sadly so, many students struggle with these things. I have had the privilege of the experience of being a student in a single-sex classroom. I myself am a female. There was a mirror class for males only. The class was Algebra A. The alternative high-school that I attended sectioned their math classes, and other genres of study, in a way that made the material less intimidating and more approachable. The separation of genders in the classroom provides an environment that is beneficial to the learning process.

In separating genders, both boys and girls are in an environment that takes away from pressures that may typically occur. Both boys and girls have the tendency towards feeling self-conscience, especially at a pre-teen/teenage stage. Boys and girls develop and think differently, therefore they learn differently. In having an individualized structure in the classroom this aids in a students potential and their ability to focus on the content at hand. The teacher can focus their energies in a more direct way that promotes openness and communication.

Students, when separated into their respective classrooms begin on a path towards a special and personal bond with their peers. When students are placed into such an environment that is personable and identifiable to them, they begin to make immediate connections, much li...

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...ures begin to be alleviated. Students found to be comfortable in such an environment are beaming with teamwork and partnership skills. Those boys and girls are then found in intimate little communities, much like families, where they are free to question, express freely, and share with their peers. While everyone achieves and harvests independent negative and positive insights from their experiences, I along with many others have grown from my own experience in a single-gender class. Things I have gained and learned from my trial-run back and affirm my opinion in the matter. In choosing to be in a single-gender classroom or placing your child in one, one should remember to be mindful. There's two sides to every story, and some things work better for some than others. Granted, in the end single-gender classrooms have been shown to have distinctly valuable benefits.