Cultural/Ethnic
The behaviors and belief systems that characterize a long standing social group.
What is culture?
Being neither male nor female.
What does it mean to be gender-nonconforming?
A positive personality trait developed through difficult circumstances; entails succeeding despite hardship.
What is Resilience?
A group of individuals with a common culture and shared history.
What is an ethnic group?
The belief that one gender is superior to another
What is sexism?
Children who have a low probability of acquiring the skills necessary for success.
Who are students at risk?
A rigid, symplistic, and in most cases inaccurate caricature of a group of people.
What is a stereotype?
The ability to imagine and manipulate 2- or 3-dimensional objects, often seen to be more advanced in boys.
What is visual-spatial ability?
Students with this type of social or monetary advantage tend to be more successful
What is higher socioeconomic status?
Classroom strategies and ways of teaching that build on students' existing strengths and accustomed ways of learning.
What is culturally responsive teaching?
A flexibility in gender identity; one can be female one day and male the next
What is gender-fluidity?
An abundance of adequate sustenance needed for proper development.
What is nutrition?
Student with this will become nervous and perform more poorly in areas their group is stereotyped as doing poorly, when they would not have otherwise.
What is a stereotype threat?
A self-constructed understanding of the differences between male and female.
What is a gender schema?
It can be caused by any number of reasons such as disinterest, bullying, medical problems, etc. Happens to roughly 5% of US high school students.*
What is dropping out?
*data from NCES