Single Gender Education: A Course for Teachers New to Boys Schools, created by the IBSC and OSB, is designed as an orientation to boys’ schools and all-boys' learning environments for newly hired teachers. Participants connect and collaborate with each other to explore best practice and research in boys’ schools classrooms. Moreover, participants learn from panels of school heads, alumni, experienced teachers, and new teachers, and therefore are introduced to community members and leaders from around the world.

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This course allows participants to connect and collaborate with each other to explore the possible implications of research on the classroom environment. The course also explores ways to create a collaborative student-centered learning space, including how technology can help achieve these goals. Ultimately, teachers will gain a clearer understanding of what it means to work in boys' school and ways that one can create a classroom atmosphere and curriculum that maximizes how boys learn. They will also have the opportunity to create a personal network of peers with which to further work, engage, and explore.

This course is four weeks in length and requires participants to spend approximately four hours a week engaged in the class. The class is entirely asynchronous — meaning that there is no specific required time to be online—and class-paced so that participants can collaborate and engage in discussion. By the end of the four week experience, teachers:

    -have a clear sense of what it means to work in an all-boys school;

    -understand ways that teachers can create a classroom atmosphere and curriculum that maximizes how boys learn; and

    -connect to an international cohort of first-year faculty members.

 There are three possible dates to take this course:

February 1st - February 26th, 2016

July 25th - August 29th, 2016

October 10th - November 4th, 2016