Gender Bias
Important figures in education and students lives
What is Teachers?
Three ways schools have expressed bias towards students in school regulations
What is Uniforms, restrictions (ex. men's activities, women's activities), and labels (ex. men's bathroom, women's bathroom)?
Two curriculums that the male group achieve higher scores in
What is Science and Mathematic?
True or false: Gender equity is valuing both genders and leads to equality
What is True?
To judge a little girl because she's playing with Hot Wheels or a little boy for playing with Barbies
What is No?
It doesn't matter what toy a child plays with, what matters is that they are happy.
The gender that the educational system is structured towards
What is Men?
The figure considered responsible for sexism in a classroom
What is teachers?
Two curriculums that the female group achieve higher scores in
What is Literaturwe and Writing?
The way boys are treated in educational system/schools
What is Boys are penalized in classrooms that favor girls?
To assume a girl would like home ec and arts more than calculus and science just because she's a girl
What is No?
Gender stereotypes placed that women are fragile are false and will never determine a female's interest! A girl could dead-lift you if she wanted to.
True or False: Males receive less attention from teachers in the classroom
What is False?
Girls receive less attention from teachers
The philosophy Matt Pinkett said enhances stereotypes of men and women being solely separate.
What is Men from Mars and Women from Venus?
Is there and achievement gap between the female and male group in the classroom?
What is Yes?
There alsways has been :).
One of many things that plays a part of how students think of themselves, view history, and choose partners for projects
What is Gender?
To force clothing that makes a person discomforted and forcing them to look as someone they don't identify as
What is No?
Clothing is one of many ways that people get to express themselves and their identity. Forcing them to wear clothes that doesn't respresn them is one way you can harm your child or a person.
The gender that is breaking boundaries and barriers posed by stereotypes
What is Girls?
The ways teachers have been showing bias whether implicit or explicitly
What is discipline and lessons?
The gender group that has an advantage in the U.S. educational system
Something important to include in your classroom and practice as a teacher
What is gernder conciousness?
To be friendly supportive of your friend who opened about to you about their sexuality
What is yes?
They opened up to you about something important that will make our break your friendship how you react. It is important to remember that just because they said what type of person they like doesn't mean they are a different person.
Ways to end gender bias in education
What is respecte each gender/support both genders/advocate gender equality?
The true cause of a person's personality
What is Parents and/or their enviroment growing up?
Children are products of their enviroment.
Some of the methods educators use to improve the achievement gap between boys and girls in the classroom
What is Setting benchmarks, tracking progress, providing more active lessons, and giving students time to self-reflect?
The way girls and boys are perceived to be due to stereotypes
What is boys aggressive and girls fragile?
To befriend the outcasted student because of their sexuality/gender or just ingeneral for being different.
What is yes?
Everyone deserves a friend, and to not befriend someone for being different when they seem nice to begin with proves you're part of the problem.