who is more efficient teacher for mentally retarded? male or female?
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I have known both males and females who were excellent special education teachers and both males and females who were terrible special education teachers.  The important factors are training, experience, committment, caring.  Gender is a  non-issue.
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no, a girl can do anything a guy can, just BETTER!
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1. Actually women is best prepared to developt his job in his professional life.\n2. Society promove more professional jobs by women at the Goverment and Private Companies.
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Generally speaking it is a matter of statistics and genetics, and actually statistically speaking men are on average 5 points ahead of the fairer sex IQ wise. \n   In all actuallity boys and girls up to age 14 have no measurable difference statistically wise in IQ, however after that age there is a consistent widening in the IQ gap between men and women up to the age of 45, where IQ generally tend to stabalize.\n    A generally accepted biological explanation, after extensive simplification, is that males evoveled their mathamatical and spatial abillity becuase of the need of those skills for hunting, navigating, and competing for natural resources (think cave-man). Women's 'mental aptitude' on the other hand dealt with teaching, communicating, and raising and caring for offspring (think cave-woman). So wait, does this mean that women are better at communicating then men?\n The answer is not surprisingly an emphatic YES! In fact a majority of studies found that on average women are indeed better at commicating then men, and have consistently shown better verbal and writing skills in all of the basic aptiude tests (think SAT and ASVAB) used. So why do men have higher IQ's, well becuase most IQ tests stress memory and spatial development, most likely becuase it is extremely difficult to accurately measure anything related to imagination and creativity.\n   So what is the answer..well officially its men, but thats what just the book says. There are many other factors to take into consideration when determining how 'smart' someone is than just a test: drive, motivation, determination. Honestly it all comes down to the person...
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Based on an analysis of 74 tests given to 12th graders nationally, Cole and fellow researchers found that females perform better in nine areas, males perform better in five areas. Girls are strongest in verbal/language skills, boys strongest in mechanical/electronic and math concepts. Girls have cut the math/science gap to only one--fourth of what it was 30 years ago, but over that time boys abilities' in verbal skills have not improved.
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A French teacher was explaining to her class that\nin French, unlike\nEnglish, nouns are designated as either masculine\nor feminine.\n\n"House" is feminine - "la maison"\n\n"Pencil" is masculine - "le crayon".\n\nA student asked "What gender is 'computer'?"\n\nInstead of giving the answer, the teacher split the\nclass into two groups:\nmale and female. And asked them to decide for\nthemselves whether "computer"\nshould be a masculine or a feminine noun. Each\ngroup was asked to give four\nreasons for their recommendation.\n\n\nThe men's group decided that "computer" should\ndefinitely be of the\nfeminine gender ("la computer"), because:\n\n1. No one but their creator understands their\ninternal logic\n\n2. The native language they use to communicate\nwith other computers is\nincomprehensible to everyone else\n\n3. Even the smallest mistakes are stored in long-\nterm memory for possible\nlater review\n\n4. As soon as you make a commitment to one,\nyou find yourself spending half\nyour salary on accessories for it.\n\n\nThe women's group, however, concluded that\ncomputers should be masculine\n("le computer"), because:\n\n1. In order to do anything with them, you have to\nturn them on.\n\n2. They have a lot of data but still can't think for\nthemselves.\n\n3. They are supposed to help you solve problems,\nbut half the time they ARE\nthe problem,\nand..\n\n4. As soon as you commit to one, you realize that\nif you had waited a\nlittle longer, you could have got a better model.\n\n\nThe women won.
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Approximately 85% of the mentally retarded population is in the mildly retarded category.  Their IQ score ranges from 50–70, and they can often acquire academic skills up to about the sixth-grade level. They can become fairly self-sufficient and, in some cases, live independently, with community and social support.\nIf the person is in this group then I see no reason why they shouldn't attend school and regular class.  \n If they need more help or are disruptive then they should be put in a special education class or they have aides to help them.
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according to all the sources and statistics i've read, and people i've been around, girls. but you see the thing is, it isn't about who's smarter. most girls work harder. they are more disciplined, more focused, more articulate, more goal-oriented, more articulate, more serious, and are given the better training. it is sad, but true. the girls also use more of their brain. these are the reasons why they produce better work.\n\ni would really love to see boy children get better training (and love), being more serious, strive to be the best, strive for excellence, instead of the macho man crap. we'd do better.
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Actually, I would prefer a female. I think that female doctors are less judgmental and arrogant than male doctors. Not to sound sexist, but perhaps women's intrinsic mothering/caring instinct adds to their role as a healer/physician.
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Mentally challenged, how? Do you mean IDEA-defined Mental Retardation (overall slow learner, also with difficulties learning communication and/or life skills)? Or are you looking at someone with learning disabilities (normal intelligence but extreme difficulty with one or more areas of academics)?\n\nIf you mean MR, you should look at the following sites for a better understanding of what MR is about:\nhttp://www.thearc.org/\nhttp://www.aamr.org/\nhttp://www.nichcy.org/pubs/factshe/fs8txt.htm#whatis\nhttp://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/001523.htm\n\nIf you mean Learning Disabled, you should look at the following sites:\nhttp://kidshealth.org/kid/health_problems/learning_problem/learning_disabilities.html\nhttp://www.ldonline.org/\nhttp://www.ncld.org/\n\nAs far as "activities" are concerned, for MR you should look at their mental age (NOT their current chronological age), and their next step in the developmental ladder. For instance, a 15 year old with the mental age of a 5 year old will be attracted to activities and games targeting kindergarden/first grade level.\n\n"Activities" for LD kids are the same as for their same-age peers, with modifications to support them if academic skills are needed. A 15 year old with LD in reading/writing, would be interested in any activity the other 15 year olds are doing. However, if there are written instructions, he/she would need the directions read to him/her.
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When boy/girl or man/women are in classes together there could be less attention to the books! As opposed to male/female classes there is more attention to details of study!\n\nSuggest putting words relating to your question at "google" and there you will get 1000,s of answers, to narrow down to exactly what you need just keep adding or rewording entry...\n\nGood Luck!
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Studies show that the male mind can be quite different. The male has two minds virtually that cannot work together. One side has to be dominant for any one moment. None the less thinking is very similar for the female but she has to respond to several different sensory stimuli than the male. Her to mind has been shown to be well connected at the base of the brain so association of thoughts are more preset before the thinking and after.  Conditioning of the mind requires females to be trained as ladies and accept being watched. The male doesn't need to be watched that way so socially the two become more different up until middle age when the female begins to change until at the end of life the two are seemingly very similar again. The joke is that after the male has had his first heart attack he is just as good a friend as any woman.
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I believe that this is apparent, because girls are more interested & apply themselves more in the classroom than guys...  this is only speaking of the majority of females in the classroom.  Study's have proven this to be true, although in the college world it seems that there are more men who recieve degrees in mathematics, engineering, computer sciences... women still out perform men in the overall percentage of degrees handed out.\n\nIn an article released at the Annual American Psychological Association Convention, after testing many girls and boys, researchers found that "[g]irls outperformed boys" and are "better than boys in successive processing across all the age groups."
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a female! men needs to produce others
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Ha Ha Ha ....Smart little girl toppled her teacher with her presence of mind and instant repartee !! Cute and thoughtfully presented one !!! Good !
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Both are equally capable, but the areas of competence are different. Like girls are very good at verbal skills whereas boys are good at analytical reasoning.
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I tend to differ. I don't think they make better leaders than men, nor do I think men make better leaders than women. There are stupid people from each sex, and intelligent ones as well. You could get some idiot female leader, whereas a great guy and vice versa. It all rests in the person's values, convictions and perception. You really can't judge a book by it's cover (or sex).\n\n-Sarah-