Gender box: Introducing a fun activity
By Laura Powell
EDI 15A Psychological Perspective: Teaching & Learning
School of Education
Long Island University, C. W. Post
February 10, 2010
Today’s lesson was a lot of fun, I thought the mini project we had to do was very creative and a good way to learn about our future students. Some of the things we have to consider while we’re teaching is that every student is different. They have come from different backgrounds, and will react differently to how we teach, as well as how they get along with other students. The lesson we did today really helped me to gain a better understand of some of the characteristics about my students and what I should do to teach these students, as well as how to react if they’re acting abnormally.
We were split into four groups, elementary boys, elementary girls, high/middle school boys, and high/middle school girls. I was in the high/middle school girls group. It was very interesting to think of normal and abnormal characteristics of students at this age. Some of the ideas we had were conflicting because each of us were somewhat different throughout high school. We named some of the normal behaviors as superficial, experimental, fragile self-esteem, caddy, etc., some of the abnormal behaviors were overly sexual (pregnant), physically aggressive, suicidal etc. We believed these characteristics were true to high school girls not only because we have all been one in the recent past, but also because we have observed and experienced other girls who acted specific ways.
Something I learned from our differences in opinions was that even though we may seem similar (all young girls, wanting to be teachers, getting educated etc.) we were all raised differently, we all acted differently in high school, and it has had different effects on us. As a teacher we must remember that some girls may be more fragile than others, or some may be more aggressive, I will need to be able to accommodate all students in my lesson plans and pay the same about of attention to each person in the class. Some interesting ways to deal with these characteristics that we came up with were to make sure there is a straight and solid line between teacher and friend. We must stay professional with our students, we don’t want rumors and we don’t want to be part of cliques, we can be friendly and the students can feel comfortable in our classroom but we are still their teachers. We also said that for teenage girls specifically teachers cannot be too hard on them, sometimes low self esteem can set a girl over the edge, and being too strict isn’t the way to create leadership in a classroom.
We learned a lot about characteristics of a student and how to deal with different age groups as well as genders. This will be very useful for me to know how each student is different as well as how to deal with them all.
Long Island University, C. W. Post
February 10, 2010
Today’s lesson was a lot of fun, I thought the mini project we had to do was very creative and a good way to learn about our future students. Some of the things we have to consider while we’re teaching is that every student is different. They have come from different backgrounds, and will react differently to how we teach, as well as how they get along with other students. The lesson we did today really helped me to gain a better understand of some of the characteristics about my students and what I should do to teach these students, as well as how to react if they’re acting abnormally.
We were split into four groups, elementary boys, elementary girls, high/middle school boys, and high/middle school girls. I was in the high/middle school girls group. It was very interesting to think of normal and abnormal characteristics of students at this age. Some of the ideas we had were conflicting because each of us were somewhat different throughout high school. We named some of the normal behaviors as superficial, experimental, fragile self-esteem, caddy, etc., some of the abnormal behaviors were overly sexual (pregnant), physically aggressive, suicidal etc. We believed these characteristics were true to high school girls not only because we have all been one in the recent past, but also because we have observed and experienced other girls who acted specific ways.
Something I learned from our differences in opinions was that even though we may seem similar (all young girls, wanting to be teachers, getting educated etc.) we were all raised differently, we all acted differently in high school, and it has had different effects on us. As a teacher we must remember that some girls may be more fragile than others, or some may be more aggressive, I will need to be able to accommodate all students in my lesson plans and pay the same about of attention to each person in the class. Some interesting ways to deal with these characteristics that we came up with were to make sure there is a straight and solid line between teacher and friend. We must stay professional with our students, we don’t want rumors and we don’t want to be part of cliques, we can be friendly and the students can feel comfortable in our classroom but we are still their teachers. We also said that for teenage girls specifically teachers cannot be too hard on them, sometimes low self esteem can set a girl over the edge, and being too strict isn’t the way to create leadership in a classroom.
We learned a lot about characteristics of a student and how to deal with different age groups as well as genders. This will be very useful for me to know how each student is different as well as how to deal with them all.
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