Many times adult males do the same things as little boys do, but we don’t necessarily do it as fast or as often. We’ll get to why that happens.
Here’s kind of the big three issues we’re going to look at today. We’re going to examine and talk about similarities and differences in brain development for males and females. We will eventually all wind up at the same place, but there are some points along the way that there’s a little discrepancy that we’ll talk about.
We’re going to talk about how males, both young and old, deal with emotional issues. Too many times the thought is that men basically have one emotion, and that tends to be anger. When they’re really mad, they’re really angry, but we’re going to talk about that. And the last one I think is really important, it’s the influence of what’s called “the boy code” or “the bro code.”
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Jim Littlejohn of Columbia, South Carolina, has been a professional educator since 1976. He has taught at the middle school, high school, and graduate school level and has served as department chair, athletic director, and coach. He served two years as a teacher in residence for the South Carolina Center for Teacher Recruitment where he served as professional development specialist.
Jim spent four years as a plant supervisor for Rachlin Furniture before returning to college to complete his degrees. He is currently the President of P.E.A.C.E. Skills, Inc. and has been providing training and consulting in the areas of conflict and anger management, classroom management, peer mediation, interpersonal relations, team building, brain-based learning, and school crisis management.
Jim was Lexington/Richland District 5 (South Carolina) Teacher of the Year and was identified as an “Outstanding Young Educator” by the local and South Carolina Jaycees. He has been a ski coach for Team USA Special Olympics and the South Carolina Special Olympics. The South Carolina governor has named him a “Hero for Children.”
Through aha! Process Jim provides training and consulting services for Emotional Poverty, Bridges Out of Poverty, Boys in Crisis, Understanding and Engaging Under-Resourced College Students, A Framework for Understanding Poverty, Research-Based Strategies, Motivation, Dropout Prevention, 9 Systemic Processes, Coaching for Social Studies Curriculum, Classroom Discipline, and Working with Parents. Jim has been with aha! Process since 2001.
