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Gentrup, Sarah; Rjosk, Camilla – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2018
This study examined the role of teacher expectations in the emerging gender gaps in reading and mathematics in the first year of schooling. Therefore, we first investigated whether boys and girls differ in their vulnerability to teacher expectancy effects. Second, we analysed whether gender-specific effects of teacher expectations contribute to…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Gender Bias, Achievement Gap, Teacher Expectations of Students
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Wilson, Johnnie B. – Teaching Children Mathematics, 2010
It is easy to fall into the trap of thinking that teaching mathematics should greatly differ from teaching language arts. Classroom teachers at Munich International School in Starnberg, Bavaria, Germany, did not pay much attention to what language means to learning and teaching mathematics--until their geometry students offered language surprises…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Geometric Concepts, Geometry, Teaching Methods