TITLE:
Effective Intervention in Daily Education: A Case Study on Improving Junior Middle School Boys’ Academic Level
AUTHORS:
Xuan Zhao
KEYWORDS:
Junior Middle School, Academic Achievement, Teenagers Boys, Case Study, Shanghai
JOURNAL NAME:
Psychology,
Vol.8 No.6,
April
27,
2017
ABSTRACT: The boy crisis is not unique in China. It has become an international phenomenon. Boy crisis is a kind of social phenomenon from recessive to dominant. Some Chinese scholars agree that boys’ performance at all levels of education is falling behind the girls, which is a common situation of boy crisis. This paper focuses on socialization of boys’ gender role, and summarizes that physiological differences, improper school education causes, absence of father’s role in family education exacerbate and aggravate junior middle school boys’ learning disabilities and academic inferiority. Shanghai YP Experimental School (SYPES) is a private junior middle school found in 1995, which devotes to improving junior middle school boys’ academic level through effective intervention as to create enough space for boys’ growth; promote objective evaluation of boys’ inappropriate behavior; mobilize the power of parents; create more display platform in campus; strengthen the development of school-based curriculum, to stimulate the interest of boys through multiple courses; create a good dynamic classroom environment, and effectively improve the interest and efficiency of boys in classroom learning; form flexible and effective mechanism of process evaluation to keep the boys’ interest in learning; develop boys’ good learning habit in a planned way, and promote the sustainable development of boys; promote boys’ teambuilding to promote the cooperation and competition consciousness in daily education and accumulate local experience.