In recent years there has been a great deal of debate about whether gender-differentiated classrooms allow students to concentrate better and increase academic success. Numerous studies and research have been conducted to investigate the advantages of single-gender schools and classes compared to co-ed schools and school settings. To further investigate the benefits of single-gender schools and classrooms compared to coeducational schools and classroom settings, an interview was conducted with an eighth-grade math teacher at Tomah Middle School who implemented the program for single genre as a project for its master's degree program when the No Child Left Behind Act loosened restrictions on these types of programs. She decided to undertake this project because up until that point there were not many all-girls and all-boys classes. So this teacher decided to further research and study this topic. This teacher used two different programs, one for the female class and another for the male class. She found that the women's class worked well in a cooperative environment. While the men's class performed well in a more competitive environment. So far this teacher has seen many benefits from implementing the program which include: • More time spent on homework • Fewer behavioral problems • Students are focused on learning • Fewer distractions from the opposite sex This teacher's goal is to provide an opportunity to learning that students have never been exposed to before. While it is still too early to say whether there has been any measurable benefit from the program, among all students who participated in the program, some students said the lesson had an impact on their learning. Tomah's students said they felt safer and more comfortable with this type of education. Furthermore, the opportunity for a longitudinal study would be truly beneficial for research on this topic. The single-gender classroom innovation is a strategy that can thrive and become a useful tool in coeducational schools, but only with a lot of planning, the application of research to the specific context of the school, or it can become yet another educational form of short duration. fad (Granville, 2012).Reference1. Assignment Education: Single-gender Classroom, 2009, retrieved from https://youtube.com/watch.tv.com.2. Granville, P., 2012, Investigating teachers' perceptions of an educational innovation: single-sex classrooms in a co-educational school, retrieved from uwispace.sta.uwi.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/2139/13957/Phebe %20.3 . Stanberry, K., Great Schools, 2014, Single-sex education: the pros and cons, retrieved from http://greatschools.org...
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